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title: So the sorcerer sat to smoke With a pipe whose bowl was bigger Than… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: So the sorcerer sat to smoke With a pipe whose bowl was bigger Than the head of any man, With a stem full ten feet long; But ever that of Kulóskap Grew to the size of a pumpkin, And then like the ten-foot boulder Which lies on the beach at Rye; And the smoke which rose from his puffing Was like that
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 93

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So the sorcerer sat to smoke With a pipe whose bowl was bigger Than the head of any man, With a stem full ten feet long; But ever that of Kulóskap Grew to the size of a pumpkin, And then like the ten-foot boulder Which lies on the beach at Rye; And the smoke which rose from his puffing Was like that of a forest fire.

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**Who acts:** sorcerer, bowl, foot boulder, smoke, man · **What happens:** sit, smoke, be, lie, rise, puff · **To what, where:** beach, puffing

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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 (sorcerer, bowl, foot boulder, smoke), 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:pg78673:11:93
# text = So the sorcerer sat to smoke With a pipe whose bowl was bigger Than the head of any man, With a stem full ten feet long; But ever that of Kulóskap Grew to the size of a pumpkin, And then like the ten-foot boulder Which lies on the beach at Rye; And the smoke which rose from his puffing Was like that of a forest fire.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sorcerer	sorcerer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	smoke	smoke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	With	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	Than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	With	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
24	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
25	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
29	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	31	advmod	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	Grew	Grew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	pumpkin	pumpkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
42	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
43	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	49	advmod	_	_
44	like	like	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
46	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	48	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	boulder	boulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
50	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	nsubj	_	_
51	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	acl:relcl	_	_
52	on	on	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
55	at	at	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	Rye	Rye	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
58	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nsubj	_	_
61	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	62	nsubj	_	_
62	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
63	from	from	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	65	nmod:poss	_	_
65	puffing	puffing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obl	_	_
66	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	68	cop	_	_
67	like	like	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
68	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	65	nmod	_	_
69	of	of	ADP	IN	_	72	case	_	_
70	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	72	det	_	_
71	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	72	compound	_	_
72	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | the sorcerer |  |  |  |  | to the size of a pumpkin; that of Kulóskap *conj*; the foot boulder *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **smoke** | to-infinitive | the sorcerer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a pipe; with a stem | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with pipe=Instrument |
| 3 | **is** | past | bowl |  |  |  |  | than the head of any man; big *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **lie** | present | the foot boulder |  |  | the beach |  | at Rye | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on beach=Location |
| 5 | **rise** | past | the smoke |  |  | man's puffing |  | which *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from puffing=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | like that; of a forest fire | tree rules |
| 7 | **puff** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom puffing «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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