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title: And sitting still he _willed_ Or wished for it to return. — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: And sitting still he _willed_ Or wished for it to return. Who acts: Master, stranger. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 49

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And sitting still he \_willed\_ Or wished for it to return.

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**Who acts:** Master, stranger · **What happens:** sit, will, wish, return

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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 (Master, stranger), 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:pg78673:11:49
# text = And sitting still he _willed_ Or wished for it to return.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	willed	will	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	_
8	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	wished	wish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **will** | participle | Master |  |  |  | still |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wish** | participle | Master *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **return** | to-infinitive | stranger |  |  |  |  |  | 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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