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title: The whale like lightning flew Until she found herself High up upon t… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The whale like lightning flew Until she found herself High up upon the shore, Then she, too, cried in woe: “Alas, alas! Who acts: whale, Nenagimk. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 119

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The whale like lightning flew Until she found herself High up upon the shore, Then she, too, cried in woe: “Alas, alas!

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**Who acts:** whale, Nenagimk · **What happens:** fly, find, cry · **To what, where:** Alas, Nenagimk, woe

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whale, Nenagimk), 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:pg78673:10:119
# text = The whale like lightning flew Until she found herself High up upon the shore, Then she, too, cried in woe: “Alas, alas!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	High	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	up	up	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	too	too	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	cried	cry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Alas	ala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	alas	ala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | the whale like lightning | Alas and alas |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | Nenagimk | Nenagimk |  |  |  | upon the shore | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | participle · passive |  | Nenagimk |  | woe | then |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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