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title: It was an awful storm, A terrible storm in winter When the wind is c… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: It was an awful storm, A terrible storm in winter When the wind is chasing the clouds; It was like a frightful tempest In summer when the lightning Chases after the thunder. Who acts: power, wind, lightning. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 11, with its de
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 113

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It was an awful storm, A terrible storm in winter When the wind is chasing the clouds; It was like a frightful tempest In summer when the lightning Chases after the thunder.

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**Who acts:** power, wind, lightning · **What happens:** be, chase · **To what, where:** awful storm, clouds

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (power, wind, lightning), 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:pg78673:11:113
# text = It was an awful storm, A terrible storm in winter When the wind is chasing the clouds; It was like a frightful tempest In summer when the lightning Chases after the thunder.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	chasing	chase	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	acl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	frightful	frightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	tempest	tempest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
26	In	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	31	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	Chases	chase	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
32	after	after	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | power | a awful storm and a frightful tempest |  |  |  | a terrible storm in winter *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **chase** | present · progressive | the wind | the clouds |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | power |  |  |  | summer | like a frightful tempest | tree rules |
| 4 | **chase** | present | the lightning |  |  |  | after the thunder |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after thunder=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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