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title: So in memory of this thing, All turtles in swamps or rivers When the… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: So in memory of this thing, All turtles in swamps or rivers When they see a man a-coming Tip-tilt them into the water With a _plump! Who acts: turtles, man, Tip. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 7

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So in memory of this thing, All turtles in swamps or rivers When they see a man a-coming Tip-tilt them into the water With a \_plump!

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**Who acts:** turtles, man, Tip · **What happens:** see, come, tilt · **To what, where:** man, memory, Tip, men, water

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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, man, Tip), 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:pg78673:9:7
# text = So in memory of this thing, All turtles in swamps or rivers When they see a man a-coming Tip-tilt them into the water With a _plump!
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	turtles	turtle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	swamps	swamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
22	Tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	tilt	tilt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	With	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	plump	plump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | all turtles in swamps or rivers | a man  a |  | memory of this thing |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | a man  a *not said here* | Tip |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tip=Theme |
| 3 | **tilt** | present | Tip *not said here* | men *= man* |  | the water |  | with a \_ plump | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=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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