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title: Such is the wonderful highway Running along the river Called Herbert… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Such is the wonderful highway Running along the river Called Herbert--the road which is named By white men the Boar’s Back, By Indians Onwokun, Which is their word for Causeway. Who acts: Such wonderful highway, white men, Indians Onwokun. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 88

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Such is the wonderful highway Running along the river Called Herbert--the road which is named By white men the Boar’s Back, By Indians Onwokun, Which is their word for Causeway.

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**Who acts:** Such wonderful highway, white men, Indians Onwokun · **What happens:** be, run, call, name · **To what, where:** Such wonderful highway, river, road, word · **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 (Such wonderful highway, white men, Indians Onwokun), 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:pg78673:7:88
# text = Such is the wonderful highway Running along the river Called Herbert--the road which is named By white men the Boar’s Back, By Indians Onwokun, Which is their word for Causeway.
1	Such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	highway	highway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	Running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	along	along	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	Called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	Herbert	Herbert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	By	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Boar	Boar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	Back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	By	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	28	compound	_	_
28	Onwokun	Onwokun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Causeway	Causeway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the Such wonderful highway and the road |  |  |  | the road *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | the Such wonderful highway and the road *not said here* |  |  | the river |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along river=Trajectory |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  | the river *not said here* |  |  |  | Herbert *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **name** | present · passive | white men | the road |  |  |  | Indians Onwokun *obl* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | present | Indians Onwokun | roads's word |  |  |  | for Causeway; roads *= road* *nmod:poss* | 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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