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title: Three days Onward and upward he went, Till on the third he came Unto… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Three days Onward and upward he went, Till on the third he came Unto the village where He found a solid dam Built over the rivulet So that no water could pass, But all was kept in a pond. Who acts: folk, water. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9, with its 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 70

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Three days Onward and upward he went, Till on the third he came Unto the village where He found a solid dam Built over the rivulet So that no water could pass, But all was kept in a pond.

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**Who acts:** folk, water · **What happens:** go, come, find, build, pass, keep · **To what, where:** solid dam, rivulet, all, pond

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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 (folk, water), 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:pg78673:9:70
# text = Three days Onward and upward he went, Till on the third he came Unto the village where He found a solid dam Built over the rivulet So that no water could pass, But all was kept in a pond.
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	3	conj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	Till	till	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
15	Unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
19	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	dam	dam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	Built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	over	over	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	rivulet	rivulet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	So	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
31	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | folk |  |  |  |  | onward *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | folk |  |  |  | till the third | unto the village | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past | folk | a solid dam |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dam=Topic |
| 4 | **build** | participle |  | a solid dam *not said here* |  | the rivulet |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **pass** | could | no water |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **keep** | past · passive |  | all |  | a pond |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in pond=Location |

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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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