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title: The Beaver built a dam The greatest ever seen. — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The Beaver built a dam The greatest ever seen. Who acts: Beaver. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 5

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The Beaver built a dam The greatest ever seen.

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**Who acts:** Beaver · **What happens:** build, see · **To what, where:** dam

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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 (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:pg78673:8:5
# text = The Beaver built a dam The greatest ever seen.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Beaver	Beaver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dam	dam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	obj	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
9	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | the Beaver | a dam |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset dam=Beneficiary great=Product |
| 2 | **see** | participle | the Beaver *not said here* |  |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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