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title: Now the Turtle seemed very lazy, And for days after they were marrie… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the Turtle seemed very lazy, And for days after they were married While other men were hunting He lounged about at home Smoking over the fire, Till one frosty, sunny morning, His wife said to him, “Mikchik, If this goes on much longer We two must certainly starve.” Who acts: Turtle, days, wife, 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 63

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Now the Turtle seemed very lazy, And for days after they were married While other men were hunting He lounged about at home Smoking over the fire, Till one frosty, sunny morning, His wife said to him, “Mikchik, If this goes on much longer We two must certainly starve.”

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**Who acts:** Turtle, days, wife, this, We · **What happens:** seem, marry, hunt, lounge, say, go on · **To what, where:** Mikchik, home Smoking, Turtle · **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 (Turtle, days, wife, this), 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:pg78673:8:63
# text = Now the Turtle seemed very lazy, And for days after they were married While other men were hunting He lounged about at home Smoking over the fire, Till one frosty, sunny morning, His wife said to him, “Mikchik, If this goes on much longer We two must certainly starve.”
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
8	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
11	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	xcomp	_	_
20	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	lounged	lounge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Smoking	smoking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	Till	till	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
32	frosty	frosty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
34	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	parataxis	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	Mikchik	Mikchik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
47	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	48	nsubj	_	_
48	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
49	on	on	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
50	much	much	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	48	advmod	_	_
52	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
53	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	appos	_	_
54	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
55	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	starve	starve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | the Turtle |  |  |  | now | lazy *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **marry** | past · passive | days *not said here* | Mikchik |  |  |  | while other men | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **hunt** | past · progressive | the Turtle *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lounge** | past | Turtle |  |  | home Smoking |  | over the fire; about *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at smoking=Location |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Turtle's wife |  | Turtle |  |  | Mikchik *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 6 | **go on** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | this |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **starve** *in a quote* | must | We |  |  |  |  | certainly *property* | 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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