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title: When the Turtle married, The Master bade him make A splendid feast,… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Turtle married, The Master bade him make A splendid feast, and for this He gave him wonderful power. Who acts: Turtle, Master bade, Was. 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 36

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When the Turtle married, The Master bade him make A splendid feast, and for this He gave him wonderful power.

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**Who acts:** Turtle, Master bade, Was · **What happens:** marry, make, give · **To what, where:** splendid feast, wonderful power, bade

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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 (Turtle, Master bade, Was), 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:pg78673:9:36
# text = When the Turtle married, The Master bade him make A splendid feast, and for this He gave him wonderful power.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	obl	_	_
18	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | past | the Turtle |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | present | the Master bade  Was | a splendid feast |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset feast=Product |
| 3 | **give** | past | Was | wonderful power | bade |  |  | for this | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient power=Theme for this=Asset |

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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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