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title: However, others declare That by this rock the Beaver Was killed whil… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: However, others declare That by this rock the Beaver Was killed while swimming away; For thus the tale was told By a Penobscot woman As she sat weaving a basket, A basket or _abaznoda_ Of that sweet-scented grass Which Indians dearly love. Who acts: others, Beaver, Penobscot woman, Was. A sentence o
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 3

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However, others declare That by this rock the Beaver Was killed while swimming away; For thus the tale was told By a Penobscot woman As she sat weaving a basket, A basket or \_abaznoda\_ Of that sweet-scented grass Which Indians dearly love.

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**Who acts:** others, Beaver, Penobscot woman, Was · **What happens:** declare, kill, swim away, tell, sit, weave · **To what, where:** That, rock, tale, basket · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, Beaver, Penobscot woman, Was), 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:pg78673:8:3
# text = However, others declare That by this rock the Beaver Was killed while swimming away; For thus the tale was told By a Penobscot woman As she sat weaving a basket, A basket or _abaznoda_ Of that sweet-scented grass Which Indians dearly love.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	declare	declare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Beaver	Beaver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	Was	Was	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
17	For	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	22	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
23	By	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Penobscot	Penobscot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
30	weaving	weave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	xcomp	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	abaznoda	abaznoda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	45	punct	_	_
40	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	45	nsubj	_	_
42	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	scented	scent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	amod	_	_
45	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	_
46	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
47	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	45	nmod	_	_
48	dearly	dearly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **declare** *speech: other* | present | others | That |  |  |  | by this rock; however *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Attribute |
| 2 | **kill** | past | the Beaver | this rock *not said here* |  |  |  | Was *nsubj* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Theme |
| 3 | **swim away** | gerund | the Beaver *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive | a Penobscot woman | the tale |  |  |  | a basket or abaznoda *obl* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
| 5 | **sit** | past | Was |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **weave** | gerund | Was *not said here* | a basket |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Product |
| 7 | **scent** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

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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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