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title: Now to this very day, whene’er you see A baby well contented, crying… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Now to this very day, whene’er you see A baby well contented, crying “Goo!” Who acts: you. 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 60

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Now to this very day, whene’er you see A baby well contented, crying “Goo!”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** see, content, cry · **To what, where:** baby, Goo

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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 (you), 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:pg78673:7:60
# text = Now to this very day, whene’er you see A baby well contented, crying “Goo!”
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	whene’er	whene'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	contented	content	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Goo	goo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | you | a baby |  |  | now; day |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer baby=Stimulus |
| 2 | **content** | participle |  | a baby *not said here* |  |  |  | well *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | you *not said here* | Goo |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goo=Topic |

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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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