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title: Soon he came to the top Of a high hill, and looking Afar o’er all th… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon he came to the top Of a high hill, and looking Afar o’er all the land Beheld, away in the distance, A wigwam, and knew in his heart That an enemy dwelt therein; And coming to it he found An old woman with two fair daughters. Who acts: wolf, That. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Al
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 18

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Soon he came to the top Of a high hill, and looking Afar o’er all the land Beheld, away in the distance, A wigwam, and knew in his heart That an enemy dwelt therein; And coming to it he found An old woman with two fair daughters.

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**Who acts:** wolf, That · **What happens:** come, look, know, dwell, find · **To what, where:** top, Afar o’er, heart, enemy, old woman

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolf, 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:pg78673:12:18
# text = Soon he came to the top Of a high hill, and looking Afar o’er all the land Beheld, away in the distance, A wigwam, and knew in his heart That an enemy dwelt therein; And coming to it he found An old woman with two fair daughters.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
14	Afar	Afar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	o’er	o'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	Beheld	Beheld	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	nsubj	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
38	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
40	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
41	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	45	advcl	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
46	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
49	with	with	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	nummod	_	_
51	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | wolf |  |  | the top of a high hill |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to top=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | wolf *not said here* | Afar o’er |  |  |  | all land *obl*; away *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme o'er=Attribute |
| 3 | **know** | past |  |  |  | wolf's heart |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **dwell** | past | That |  |  |  |  | a enemy *nsubj*; therein *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | gerund | wolf *not said here* |  |  | enemy |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **find** | past | wolf | a old woman |  |  |  | with two fair daughters | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic |

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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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