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title: And on a summer day Who listens in a pine wood, May hear the trees a… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: And on a summer day Who listens in a pine wood, May hear the trees a murmuring In the soft Indian tongue All of the olden time: (“_Î nĭl etuchi nek mʾkilaskîtap Î nĭl etuchi nek mʾkiluskíjin_”) “Oh, I’m such a great man! Who acts: summer day, Î, some. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Al
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 95

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And on a summer day Who listens in a pine wood, May hear the trees a murmuring In the soft Indian tongue All of the olden time: (“\_Î nĭl etuchi nek mʾkilaskîtap Î nĭl etuchi nek mʾkiluskíjin\_”) “Oh, I’m such a great man!

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**Who acts:** summer day, Î, some · **What happens:** listen, hear, mʾkilaskîtap, be · **To what, where:** trees, soft Indian tongue, great man · **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 (summer day, Î, some), 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:pg78673:6:95
# text = And on a summer day Who listens in a pine wood, May hear the trees a murmuring In the soft Indian tongue All of the olden time: (“_Î nĭl etuchi nek mʾkilaskîtap Î nĭl etuchi nek mʾkiluskíjin_”) “Oh, I’m such a great man!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
6	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	listens	listen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
13	May	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	hear	hear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	murmuring	murmuring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	In	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
24	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	appos	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	olden	olden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
30	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	Î	Î	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
34	nĭl	nĭl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	etuchi	etuchi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
36	nek	nek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	mʾkilaskîtap	mʾkilaskîtap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
38	Î	Î	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	_
39	nĭl	nĭl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	etuchi	etuchi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
41	nek	nek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	mʾkiluskíjin	mʾkiluskíjin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	42	punct	_	_
46	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	50	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
49	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	’m	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
51	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	54	det:predet	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | present | a summer day |  |  |  |  | in a pine wood | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in wood=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | may |  | the trees |  | the soft Indian tongue | day | a murmuring *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **mʾkilaskîtap** *in a quote* |  | Î |  |  |  |  | etuchi nek mʾkiluskíjin *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* | present | some | such great man |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot man=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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