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title: Ere long they came to a village That of the Sagamore, The father of… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Ere long they came to a village That of the Sagamore, The father of the girl For whom many had lost their lives. Who acts: canoes. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 69

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Ere long they came to a village That of the Sagamore, The father of the girl For whom many had lost their lives.

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**Who acts:** canoes · **What happens:** come, lose · **To what, where:** village, many

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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 (canoes), 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:pg78673:5:69
# text = Ere long they came to a village That of the Sagamore, The father of the girl For whom many had lost their lives.
1	Ere	ere	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Sagamore	Sagamore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	For	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nmod	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | canoes *= canoe* |  |  | a village |  | long *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **lose** | past · perfect · passive |  | many |  |  |  | canoes's lives *obj* | tree rules |

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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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