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title: More indeed, for the chief Said, “Look at yonder hill, I fain would… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: More indeed, for the chief Said, “Look at yonder hill, I fain would see my son Coast down it on a sled.” Who acts: chief, son. 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 77

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More indeed, for the chief Said, “Look at yonder hill, I fain would see my son Coast down it on a sled.”

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**Who acts:** chief, son · **What happens:** look, fain, see, coast down · **To what, where:** son, head, sled

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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 (chief, son), 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:pg78673:5:77
# text = More indeed, for the chief Said, “Look at yonder hill, I fain would see my son Coast down it on a sled.”
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
2	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	Said	Said	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	fain	fain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	Coast	coast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
22	down	down	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sled	sled	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive | the chief |  |  |  |  | at hill | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at hill=Theme |
| 2 | **fain** *in a quote* | present | the chief *= chief* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | would | the chief *= chief* *not said here* | my son |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **coast down** *in a quote* | infinitive | my son *not said here* | head |  | a sled |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme on sled=Trajectory |

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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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