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title: And when ’twas done, the three At once were turned to trees; To pine… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: And when ’twas done, the three At once were turned to trees; To pines, as one tale tells, Or cedars, as some say; In either case each man Received what he required. Who acts: one tale, some, 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 93

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And when ’twas done, the three At once were turned to trees; To pines, as one tale tells, Or cedars, as some say; In either case each man Received what he required.

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**Who acts:** one tale, some, man · **What happens:** do, turn, tell, say, receive, require · **To what, where:** twas, trees, pines, case · **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 (one tale, some, 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:pg78673:6:93
# text = And when ’twas done, the three At once were turned to trees; To pines, as one tale tells, Or cedars, as some say; In either case each man Received what he required.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
3	’	'	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
5	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	_
9	At	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	obl	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	To	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	pines	pine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	cedars	cedar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	nsubj	_	_
29	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	In	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
33	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
34	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	Received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	_
37	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	39	obj	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	required	require	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle |  | twas  the three *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **turn** | past · passive |  | twas  the three |  | trees |  | to pines or cedars | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: subject=Theme to tree=Source to pine=Trajectory |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | one tale | pines or cedars *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pine=Recipient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **receive** | past | each man |  |  | either case |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **require** | past | man |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Precondition |

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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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