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title: The Sagamore had a man Whom none could overcome In swimming of all k… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sagamore had a man Whom none could overcome In swimming of all kinds, Or diving in the sea; With him the youth must strive. Who acts: Sagamore, man, youth. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 16

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The Sagamore had a man Whom none could overcome In swimming of all kinds, Or diving in the sea; With him the youth must strive.

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**Who acts:** Sagamore, man, youth · **What happens:** have, overcome, dive, strive, swim · **To what, where:** kinds

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sagamore, man, youth), 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:pg78673:6:16
# text = The Sagamore had a man Whom none could overcome In swimming of all kinds, Or diving in the sea; With him the youth must strive.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sagamore	Sagamore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	Whom	whom	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	5	nmod	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	overcome	overcome	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
10	In	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	swimming	swimming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	diving	dive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	advcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	With	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	strive	strive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the Sagamore |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **overcome** | could | a man whom none |  |  |  |  | in swimming of all kinds | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in swimming=Attribute |
| 3 | **dive** | gerund | a man whom none *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the sea | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in sea=Attribute |
| 4 | **strive** | must | the youth |  |  |  |  | with Sagamore | tree rules |
| 5 | **swim** |  |  | all kinds |  |  |  |  | nom swimming «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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