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title: Then the Master entered the wigwam Where Pûjinskwes sat waiting, Wai… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Master entered the wigwam Where Pûjinskwes sat waiting, Waiting for him as dead, Waiting for him as food. Who acts: Master, Pûjinskwes. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 32

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Then the Master entered the wigwam Where Pûjinskwes sat waiting, Waiting for him as dead, Waiting for him as food.

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**Who acts:** Master, Pûjinskwes · **What happens:** enter, sit, wait · **To what, where:** wigwam

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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 (Master, Pûjinskwes), 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:pg78673:12:32
# text = Then the Master entered the wigwam Where Pûjinskwes sat waiting, Waiting for him as dead, Waiting for him as food.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
8	Pûjinskwes	Pûjinskwes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | the Master | the wigwam |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wigwam=Destination |
| 2 | **sit** | past | Pûjinskwes |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wait** | gerund | Pûjinskwes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wait** | gerund | Pûjinskwes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Pûjinskwes; as dead | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **wait** | gerund | Pûjinskwes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Pûjinskwes; as food | vn exist-47.1 «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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