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title: Then he bade him go down to a point Of very great rocks by the sea W… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he bade him go down to a point Of very great rocks by the sea Where whales were always found, And told him to bring a whale, And gave him the might to do so. Who acts: Was. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 37

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Then he bade him go down to a point Of very great rocks by the sea Where whales were always found, And told him to bring a whale, And gave him the might to do so.

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**Who acts:** Was · **What happens:** bade, go down, find, tell, bring, give · **To what, where:** bade, whales, Was, whale, great rocks · **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 (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:pg78673:9:37
# text = Then he bade him go down to a point Of very great rocks by the sea Where whales were always found, And told him to bring a whale, And gave him the might to do so.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
18	whales	whale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	21	advmod	_	_
21	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	iobj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	iobj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bade** | past | Was | bade |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go down** | infinitive | Was *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a point of great rocks by the sea; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **find** | past · passive |  | whales |  |  |  | always *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Was *not said here* |  | Was |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **bring** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Was *not said here* |  | a whale |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument whale=Destination |
| 6 | **give** | past | Was *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Was *iobj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient might=Theme |
| 7 | **do** | to-infinitive | Was *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **point** |  |  | great rocks by the sea |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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