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title: So two of the younger men Took a canoe and went forth To see what th… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: So two of the younger men Took a canoe and went forth To see what this might be. Who acts: two, this. 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 3

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So two of the younger men Took a canoe and went forth To see what this might be.

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**Who acts:** two, this · **What happens:** take, go, see, be · **To what, where:** canoe · **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 (two, 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:pg78673:9:3
# text = So two of the younger men Took a canoe and went forth To see what this might be.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	Took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	To	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	obj	_	_
16	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
17	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | two of the younger men | a canoe |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | two of the younger men *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | two of the younger men *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **be** | might | this |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |

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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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