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title: One day it came to pass That the Master said to Mikchik “To-morrow w… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: One day it came to pass That the Master said to Mikchik “To-morrow will be held The very great yearly ball-play And you must share in the game. Who acts: more, Master, Mikchik. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 69

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One day it came to pass That the Master said to Mikchik “To-morrow will be held The very great yearly ball-play And you must share in the game.

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**Who acts:** more, Master, Mikchik · **What happens:** come, pass, say, hold, share · **To what, where:** That, Mikchik, great yearly ball play, game · **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 (more, Master, Mikchik), 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:pg78673:8:69
# text = One day it came to pass That the Master said to Mikchik “To-morrow will be held The very great yearly ball-play And you must share in the game.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Mikchik	Mikchik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	To	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	ccomp	_	_
20	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
23	yearly	yearly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
27	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | more |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | more *not said here* | That |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Trajectory |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Master |  | Mikchik |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mikchik=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **hold** *in a quote* | future · passive |  | the great yearly ball play |  |  |  | to morrow | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: play=Theme |
| 5 | **share** *in a quote* | must | Mikchik |  |  | the game |  |  | 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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