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title: So they cut it up and cooked it; And when the feast was ready, The T… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: So they cut it up and cooked it; And when the feast was ready, The Turtle came yawning on, And stretching out his leg Cried out: “How tired I am! Who acts: turtles, feast, Turtle, stretching. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 42

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So they cut it up and cooked it; And when the feast was ready, The Turtle came yawning on, And stretching out his leg Cried out: “How tired I am!

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**Who acts:** turtles, feast, Turtle, stretching, Was · **What happens:** cut up, cook, be, come, yawn on, stretch out · **To what, where:** many, leg · **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 (turtles, feast, Turtle, stretching), 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:pg78673:9:42
# text = So they cut it up and cooked it; And when the feast was ready, The Turtle came yawning on, And stretching out his leg Cried out: “How tired I am!
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cut	cut	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	cooked	cook	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
10	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
20	yawning	yawn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	csubj	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	Cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
31	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
33	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
35	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut up** | present | turtles *= turtle* | many |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cook** | past | turtles *= turtle* *not said here* | many |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | the feast |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | past | the Turtle |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **yawn on** | gerund | the Turtle *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **stretch out** | gerund |  | Was's leg |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
| 7 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | stretching |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Was |  |  |  |  | tired *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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