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title: And these are indeed the bones Of the beavers who built the dam Acro… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: And these are indeed the bones Of the beavers who built the dam Across at Cape Blomidon And crossed the Annapolis Valley. Who acts: beavers. 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 93

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And these are indeed the bones Of the beavers who built the dam Across at Cape Blomidon And crossed the Annapolis Valley.

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**Who acts:** beavers · **What happens:** be, build, cross · **To what, where:** bones, dam, Cape, Annapolis Valley

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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 (beavers), 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:pg78673:7:93
# text = And these are indeed the bones Of the beavers who built the dam Across at Cape Blomidon And crossed the Annapolis Valley.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	beavers	beaver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	dam	dam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	Across	across	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	Blomidon	Blomidon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Annapolis	Annapolis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Valley	Valley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | this bones |  |  |  | of the beavers; indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **build** | past | the beavers | the dam |  | Cape |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dam=Product |
| 3 | **cross** | past | the beavers *not said here* | the Annapolis Valley |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent valley=Patient |

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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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