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title: In despair She plunged into the deep and there became The _wĕbĕtumek… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: In despair She plunged into the deep and there became The _wĕbĕtumekw_, a ferocious shark Which has upon its back a mighty fin Like a great sail when swimming in the sea. Who acts: shape, ferocious shark. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 11, with its depen
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 27

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In despair She plunged into the deep and there became The \_wĕbĕtumekw\_, a ferocious shark Which has upon its back a mighty fin Like a great sail when swimming in the sea.

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**Who acts:** shape, ferocious shark · **What happens:** plunge, become, have, swim · **To what, where:** wĕbĕtumekw, mighty fin, sea

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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 (shape, ferocious shark), 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:pg78673:11:27
# text = In despair She plunged into the deep and there became The _wĕbĕtumekw_, a ferocious shark Which has upon its back a mighty fin Like a great sail when swimming in the sea.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	plunged	plunge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	wĕbĕtumekw	wĕbĕtumekw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	ferocious	ferocious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	fin	fin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
27	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	32	mark	_	_
32	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	acl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **plunge** | past | shape |  |  |  |  | into the deep; in despair | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in despair=Attribute |
| 2 | **become** | past | shape *not said here* | the wĕbĕtumekw and a ferocious shark |  | there |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | present | a ferocious shark | a mighty fin |  |  |  | upon shark's back; like a great sail | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fin=Patient |
| 4 | **swim** | gerund |  |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 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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