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title: “Seek in the sand,” said the Master, Where he sought and found full… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: “Seek in the sand,” said the Master, Where he sought and found full many And greatly he marvelled at them. Who acts: Master, mortal. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 17

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“Seek in the sand,” said the Master, Where he sought and found full many And greatly he marvelled at them.

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**Who acts:** Master, mortal · **What happens:** seek, say, find, marvell · **To what, where:** sand · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Master, mortal), 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:pg78673:9:17
# text = “Seek in the sand,” said the Master, Where he sought and found full many And greatly he marvelled at them.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
17	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	marvelled	marvell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | the sand |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in sand=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Master |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **seek** | past | mortal |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **find** | past | mortal *not said here* |  |  |  |  | full *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **marvell** | past | mortal |  |  |  |  | at eggs *= egg*; greatly *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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