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title: The second brother asked That he might ever live Where he might beho… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The second brother asked That he might ever live Where he might behold the land And all the beauty of it, And do naught else save rest In peace forever more. Who acts: second brother, That, man. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 84

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The second brother asked That he might ever live Where he might behold the land And all the beauty of it, And do naught else save rest In peace forever more.

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**Who acts:** second brother, That, man · **What happens:** ask, live, behold, do, save · **To what, where:** land, naught, rest, peace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (second brother, That, man), 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:pg78673:6:84
# text = The second brother asked That he might ever live Where he might behold the land And all the beauty of it, And do naught else save rest In peace forever more.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj:outer	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
9	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
10	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	behold	behold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
25	naught	naught	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	24	obj	_	_
26	else	else	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
28	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	In	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the second brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **live** | might | That |  |  |  | ever | man *nsubj* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **behold** | might | man | the land and all beauty of land |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer land=Stimulus |
| 4 | **do** | infinitive | That *not said here* | naught |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent naught=Eventuality |
| 5 | **save** | infinitive | That *not said here* | rest |  | peace |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme |

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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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