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title: So he cut the great dam near the shore, And he bade the boy Marten w… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: So he cut the great dam near the shore, And he bade the boy Marten watch; For he said, “I greatly suspect That there is a little beaver Who is hiding hereabouts.” Who acts: Master, little beaver. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 95

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So he cut the great dam near the shore, And he bade the boy Marten watch; For he said, “I greatly suspect That there is a little beaver Who is hiding hereabouts.”

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**Who acts:** Master, little beaver · **What happens:** cut, bade, say, suspect, be, hide · **To what, where:** great dam, shore, boy, That, hereabouts · **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, little beaver), 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:pg78673:7:95
# text = So he cut the great dam near the shore, And he bade the boy Marten watch; For he said, “I greatly suspect That there is a little beaver Who is hiding hereabouts.”
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dam	dam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	near	near	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	Marten	Marten	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	suspect	suspect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
27	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	obj	_	_
28	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	29	expl	_	_
29	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	beaver	beaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
33	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	acl:relcl	_	_
36	hereabouts	hereabout	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | past | Master | the great dam |  | the shore |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dam=Product |
| 2 | **bade** | past | Master | the boy |  |  |  | Marten watch *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Master |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **suspect** *in a quote* | present | Master | That |  |  |  | greatly *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Attribute |
| 5 | **be** *in a quote* | present | a little beaver |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **hide** *in a quote* | present · progressive | a little beaver | hereabouts |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hereabout=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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