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title: So the Lord Turned to the babe with a bewitching smile, And bade the… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Lord Turned to the babe with a bewitching smile, And bade the little creature come to him; Back smiled the baby, but it did not budge. Who acts: Lord, bade, Back, creature. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 53

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So the Lord Turned to the babe with a bewitching smile, And bade the little creature come to him; Back smiled the baby, but it did not budge.

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**Who acts:** Lord, bade, Back, creature · **What happens:** turn, bewitch, come, smile, not budge · **To what, where:** babe, Lord, baby

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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 (Lord, bade, Back, creature), 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:pg78673:7:53
# text = So the Lord Turned to the babe with a bewitching smile, And bade the little creature come to him; Back smiled the baby, but it did not budge.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	Turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	babe	babe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	bewitching	bewitch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	Back	Back	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	budge	budge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | the Lord |  |  | the babe |  | with a bewitching smile | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to babe=Trajectory |
| 2 | **bewitch** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **come** | infinitive | bade |  | Lord |  |  | the little creature *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **smile** | past | Back | the baby |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **budge** | past · do-support | creature |  |  |  |  |  | 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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