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title: When Kulóskap lived among men, He often in his canoe Went forth to k… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: When Kulóskap lived among men, He often in his canoe Went forth to kill the wild-fowl, Ducks or swans or brant, Which swim upon the sea. Who acts: Kulóskap, KULÓSKAP, Ducks. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 64

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When Kulóskap lived among men, He often in his canoe Went forth to kill the wild-fowl, Ducks or swans or brant, Which swim upon the sea.

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**Who acts:** Kulóskap, KULÓSKAP, Ducks · **What happens:** live, go, kill, swim · **To what, where:** canoe, wild fowl, sea

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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 (Kulóskap, KULÓSKAP, Ducks), 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:pg78673:10:64
# text = When Kulóskap lived among men, He often in his canoe Went forth to kill the wild-fowl, Ducks or swans or brant, Which swim upon the sea.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
4	among	among	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
8	often	often	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
12	Went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	fowl	fowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	appos	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	brant	brant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	swim	swim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
29	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | Kulóskap |  |  |  |  | among men | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among man=Location |
| 2 | **go** | past | KULÓSKAP *= kulóskap* |  |  | KULÓSKAP's canoe |  | forth, often *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in canoe=Location |
| 3 | **kill** | to-infinitive | KULÓSKAP *= kulóskap* *not said here* | the wild fowl |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fowl=Theme |
| 4 | **swim** | present | Ducks or swans or brant |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon sea=Trajectory |

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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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