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title: Now they had sometime heard That, far away in the hills Where none o… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Now they had sometime heard That, far away in the hills Where none of them had been, There was another village Upon this very stream; But what kind of people dwelt Therein, no one could say; So, thinking that these folk Knew something about the drought, They sent a man to look Into the thing. Who ac
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 69

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Now they had sometime heard That, far away in the hills Where none of them had been, There was another village Upon this very stream; But what kind of people dwelt Therein, no one could say; So, thinking that these folk Knew something about the drought, They sent a man to look Into the thing.

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**Who acts:** village, kind, one, folk, women · **What happens:** hear, be, dwell, say, think, know · **To what, where:** women, something, man · **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 (village, kind, one, folk), 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:pg78673:9:69
# text = Now they had sometime heard That, far away in the hills Where none of them had been, There was another village Upon this very stream; But what kind of people dwelt Therein, no one could say; So, thinking that these folk Knew something about the drought, They sent a man to look Into the thing.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	sometime	sometime	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
14	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	18	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
22	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
24	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
29	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	31	det	_	_
31	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
34	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
35	Therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	38	det	_	_
38	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
39	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	So	so	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
45	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
46	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	47	det	_	_
47	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
48	Knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	ccomp	_	_
49	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	48	obj	_	_
50	about	about	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	drought	drought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
55	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	_
58	to	to	PART	TO	_	59	mark	_	_
59	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	advcl	_	_
60	Into	into	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · perfect · passive |  | women *= woman* |  |  | now | That *obj*; away, sometime *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | past | another village upon this stream |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dwell** | past | what kind of people |  |  |  |  | therein *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | could | no one |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | what kind of people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **know** | past | this folk | something |  |  |  | about the drought | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus |
| 7 | **send** | past | women *= woman* | a man |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 8 | **look** | to-infinitive | women *= woman* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the thing | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into thing=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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