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title: It chanced that great Kulóskap met a witch, An evil being who had ma… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: It chanced that great Kulóskap met a witch, An evil being who had made herself Look like a fair young girl, and that so well By all the deepest art of sorcery, That she was sure the Lord could never see Through her disguise--wherein she was a fool, Because he read her at a single glance. Who acts: s
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 18

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It chanced that great Kulóskap met a witch, An evil being who had made herself Look like a fair young girl, and that so well By all the deepest art of sorcery, That she was sure the Lord could never see Through her disguise--wherein she was a fool, Because he read her at a single glance.

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**Who acts:** story, great Kulóskap, An, That, Lord, Kulóskap · **What happens:** chance, meet, make, look, be, not see · **To what, where:** witch, An, disguise, fool, Kulóskap, single glance

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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 (story, great Kulóskap, An, That), 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:pg78673:11:18
# text = It chanced that great Kulóskap met a witch, An evil being who had made herself Look like a fair young girl, and that so well By all the deepest art of sorcery, That she was sure the Lord could never see Through her disguise--wherein she was a fool, Because he read her at a single glance.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	chanced	chance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
16	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obj	_	_
17	Look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	nsubj	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	_
28	By	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	deepest	deep	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	amod	_	_
32	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	sorcery	sorcery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	nsubj	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
42	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
44	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	ccomp	_	_
45	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	disguise	disguise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	53	advmod	_	_
50	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
51	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
55	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	parataxis	_	_
58	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obj	_	_
59	at	at	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
60	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
61	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	glance	glance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chance** | past | story |  |  |  |  | all deepest art  that of sorcery *parataxis* | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | past | great Kulóskap | a witch |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **make** | gerund · perfect · passive |  | An |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; Kulóskap *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | infinitive | An *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a fair young girl | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | past | That |  |  |  |  | Kulóskap *nsubj*; sure *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **see** | could | the Lord |  |  | Kulóskap's disguise and a fool |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **is a** | past | Kulóskap | a fool |  |  |  | wherein *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **read** | past | Lord | Kulóskap |  | a single glance |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent she=Theme at glance=Value |

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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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