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title: Then many ran to the Master Saying that Turtle was dead, But he answ… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then many ran to the Master Saying that Turtle was dead, But he answered “Cut up the whale For the dead will soon revive.” Who acts: many, Master, Turtle, 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 41

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Then many ran to the Master Saying that Turtle was dead, But he answered “Cut up the whale For the dead will soon revive.”

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**Who acts:** many, Master, Turtle, Was · **What happens:** run, say, be, answer, cut up, revive · **To what, where:** whale · **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 (many, Master, Turtle, 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:pg78673:9:41
# text = Then many ran to the Master Saying that Turtle was dead, But he answered “Cut up the whale For the dead will soon revive.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	Saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	ccomp	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	For	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
26	revive	revive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | many |  |  |  | then | to the Master | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Master *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | Turtle |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Was |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **cut up** *in a quote* | participle |  | the whale |  |  |  | for the dead | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent whale=Product for dead=Asset |
| 6 | **revive** *in a quote* | future |  |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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