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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 92

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And when the boy had gone There was no reply before An hour, when the boy returned, During which time the Master Sat on a log and smoked.

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**Who acts:** boy, reply, Master Sat · **What happens:** go, be, return, smoke

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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 (boy, reply, Master Sat), 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:pg78673:9:92
# text = And when the boy had gone There was no reply before An hour, when the boy returned, During which time the Master Sat on a log and smoked.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
20	During	during	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	22	det	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Sat	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
30	smoked	smoke	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · perfect | the boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **be** | past | no reply before a hour |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **return** | past | the boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **smoke** | past | the Master Sat on a log |  |  |  | time |  | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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