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title: THE THREE BROTHERS WHO BECAME TREES — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: THE THREE BROTHERS WHO BECAME TREES Who acts: THREE BROTHERS. 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 77

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THE THREE BROTHERS WHO BECAME TREES

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**Who acts:** THREE BROTHERS · **What happens:** become · **To what, where:** TREES, THREE BROTHERS

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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 (THREE BROTHERS), 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:pg78673:6:77
# text = THE THREE BROTHERS WHO BECAME TREES
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	THREE	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	BROTHERS	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	WHO	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	BECAME	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	TREES	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	xcomp	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the THREE BROTHERS | TREES |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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