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title: And he sat Upon the floor, in baby peace profound Sucking a piece of… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: And he sat Upon the floor, in baby peace profound Sucking a piece of maple sugar sweet; Greatly content and troubling nobody. Who acts: man, baby peace profound. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 51

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And he sat Upon the floor, in baby peace profound Sucking a piece of maple sugar sweet; Greatly content and troubling nobody.

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**Who acts:** man, baby peace profound · **What happens:** sit, suck, trouble · **To what, where:** content, floor, piece, nobody

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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 (man, baby peace profound), 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:pg78673:7:51
# text = And he sat Upon the floor, in baby peace profound Sucking a piece of maple sugar sweet; Greatly content and troubling nobody.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	profound	profound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
12	Sucking	suck	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	maple	maple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	sweet	sweet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	Greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	troubling	trouble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
24	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | man | content |  | the floor |  | baby peace profound *conj* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon floor=Location |
| 2 | **suck** | gerund | baby peace profound *not said here* | a piece of sugar sweet |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent piece=Source |
| 3 | **trouble** | gerund | man *not said here* | nobody |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nobody=Experiencer |

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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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