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title: Ere long they heard the sound As of a paddle outside, And the noise… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Ere long they heard the sound As of a paddle outside, And the noise of a canoe When it is drawn ashore. Who acts: they, canoe. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 3

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Ere long they heard the sound As of a paddle outside, And the noise of a canoe When it is drawn ashore.

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**Who acts:** they, canoe · **What happens:** hear, draw, noise · **To what, where:** sound, noise

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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 (they, canoe), 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:pg78673:7:3
# text = Ere long they heard the sound As of a paddle outside, And the noise of a canoe When it is drawn ashore.
1	Ere	ere	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	10	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	paddle	paddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
13	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
23	ashore	ashore	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | they | the sound |  |  |  | as a paddle; long *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus |
| 2 | **draw** | present · passive |  | the noise of a canoe |  |  |  | ashore *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **noise** |  | a canoe |  |  |  |  |  | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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