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title: A year had they been in coming, But having put on his belt He led th… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: A year had they been in coming, But having put on his belt He led them and they followed, Till, ere the afternoon, He took them to the top Of a lofty mountain, from which Afar off they beheld Another, whose outline blue Rose lofty o’er the plain. Who acts: year, pilgrims, third, Afar. A sentence of 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 22

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A year had they been in coming, But having put on his belt He led them and they followed, Till, ere the afternoon, He took them to the top Of a lofty mountain, from which Afar off they beheld Another, whose outline blue Rose lofty o’er the plain.

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**Who acts:** year, pilgrims, third, Afar, outline · **What happens:** have, come, put, lead, follow, ere · **To what, where:** Till, belt, pilgrims, top, Another

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (year, pilgrims, third, Afar), 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:pg78673:7:22
# text = A year had they been in coming, But having put on his belt He led them and they followed, Till, ere the afternoon, He took them to the top Of a lofty mountain, from which Afar off they beheld Another, whose outline blue Rose lofty o’er the plain.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux	_	_
6	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	aux	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Till	Till	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	ere	ere	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	obl	_	_
41	Afar	Afar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
42	off	off	ADP	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
43	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
45	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	outline	outline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
49	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	Rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
51	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
52	o’er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	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 | a year |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | participle · progressive | pilgrims *= pilgrim* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **put** | gerund · perfect | a year *not said here* | Till |  | third's belt |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on belt=Destination |
| 4 | **lead** | past | third | pilgrims *= pilgrim* |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **follow** | past | pilgrims *= pilgrim* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **ere** | past | a year *not said here* |  |  |  | afternoon |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **take** | past | third | pilgrims *= pilgrim* |  | the top of a lofty mountain |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to top=Destination |
| 8 | **behold** | past | Afar | Another |  |  |  | which *obl*; pilgrims *= pilgrim* *nsubj* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer another=Stimulus |
| 9 | **rose** |  | blue Rose's outline |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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