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description: The Master said to them smiling, And when he took them on it They found that it was indeed A great and large canoe With lofty masts, and sails-- So the two went forth rejoicing. Who acts: Master, canoes, granite, two. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 5, wi
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 67

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The Master said to them smiling, And when he took them on it They found that it was indeed A great and large canoe With lofty masts, and sails-- So the two went forth rejoicing.

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**Who acts:** Master, canoes, granite, two · **What happens:** say, smile, take, find, be, go · **To what, where:** canoes, granite, sails, great canoe · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Master, canoes, granite, two), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78673:5:67
# text = The Master said to them smiling, And when he took them on it They found that it was indeed A great and large canoe With lofty masts, and sails-- So the two went forth rejoicing.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	smiling	smile	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
15	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
20	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
21	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	ccomp	_	_
26	With	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	masts	mast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	So	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nsubj	_	_
36	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
37	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Master |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **smile** | gerund | canoes *= canoe* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** | past | Master | canoes *= canoe* |  | granite |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on it=Destination |
| 4 | **find** | past | canoes *= canoe* | sails |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past | granite | a great canoe |  |  |  | with lofty masts; indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | past | the two |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **rejoice** | gerund | the two *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Project Gutenberg book 78673 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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