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title: But for days and years thereafter Pûjinskwes sought to slay him, And… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: But for days and years thereafter Pûjinskwes sought to slay him, And she had terrible power, The might of the Evil Witches Which came from the early time. Who acts: Kulóskap, Evil Witches. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and t
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 115

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But for days and years thereafter Pûjinskwes sought to slay him, And she had terrible power, The might of the Evil Witches Which came from the early time.

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**Who acts:** Kulóskap, Evil Witches · **What happens:** seek, slay, have, come · **To what, where:** wind, terrible power

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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 (Kulóskap, Evil Witches), 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:pg78673:11:115
# text = But for days and years thereafter Pûjinskwes sought to slay him, And she had terrible power, The might of the Evil Witches Which came from the early time.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	Pûjinskwes	Pûjinskwes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
20	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Evil	Evil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Witches	Witch	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | past |  |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **slay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | wind |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | past | Kulóskap | terrible power |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
| 4 | **come** | past | the Evil Witches |  |  |  | time | Which *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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