--- title: The girls came to him greeting With fond and pleasing glances, Askin… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics description: The girls came to him greeting With fond and pleasing glances, Asking if he was hungry, And offering him a dainty: The entrails of a bear Which, when turned and smoked and seasoned, Are deemed by all delicious. Who acts: girls, wolf. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, wolf), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78673:12:20 # text = The girls came to him greeting With fond and pleasing glances, Asking if he was hungry, And offering him a dainty: The entrails of a bear Which, when turned and smoked and seasoned, Are deemed by all delicious. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 greeting greet VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 7 With with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 fond fond ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 pleasing pleasing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 11 glances glance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 14 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 And and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 offering offer VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 dainty dainty NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 25 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 entrails entrail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 Which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 when when SCONJ WRB _ 33 mark _ _ 33 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl:relcl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 smoked smoke VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 conj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 seasoned season VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 39 Are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 deemed deem VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 advcl _ _ 41 by by ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 40 obj _ _ 43 delicious delicious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the girls | | wolf | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **greet** *speech: greet* | gerund | the girls *not said here* | | | | | with fond glances | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | the girls *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | wolf | | | | | hungry *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **offer** | gerund | the girls *not said here* | a dainty | wolf | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal dainty=Theme | | 6 | **turn** | participle · passive | | the entrails of a bear | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | | 7 | **smoke** | participle | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **season** | participle | | | | | | | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **deem** | present · passive | | the entrails of a bear | | | | | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme all=Attribute | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/12/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/12/21/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/12/)