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title: And then the Master spoke in sweeter tone, Making his voice like tha… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: And then the Master spoke in sweeter tone, Making his voice like that of summer birds, And all to no avail; for Waʾsis sat, And, sucking at his sugar silently, Looked at Kulóskap with untroubled eyes. Who acts: Master, Waʾsis. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, p
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 54

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And then the Master spoke in sweeter tone, Making his voice like that of summer birds, And all to no avail; for Waʾsis sat, And, sucking at his sugar silently, Looked at Kulóskap with untroubled eyes.

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**Who acts:** Master, Waʾsis · **What happens:** speak, make, sit, suck, look · **To what, where:** sweeter tone, voice, sugar · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Master, Waʾsis), 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:pg78673:7:54
# text = And then the Master spoke in sweeter tone, Making his voice like that of summer birds, And all to no avail; for Waʾsis sat, And, sucking at his sugar silently, Looked at Kulóskap with untroubled eyes.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	avail	avail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	Waʾsis	Waʾsis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	sucking	suck	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	silently	silently	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	Looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
38	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	untroubled	untroubled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the Master |  |  | sweeter tone | then | to all avail | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to avail=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | the Master *not said here* | Master's voice |  |  |  | like that of summer birds | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset voice=Product |
| 3 | **sit** | past | Waʾsis |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **suck** | gerund | Waʾsis *not said here* |  |  | Master's sugar |  | silently *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at sugar=Source |
| 5 | **look** | participle | Waʾsis *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with untroubled eyes; at Kulóskap | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at kulóskap=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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