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title: And while Kulóskap was seeking For eggs along the seaside She stole… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: And while Kulóskap was seeking For eggs along the seaside She stole away in silence, Away in the _agwedʾn_ That is, in the birch-canoe. Who acts: Kulóskap, death, That. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 51

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And while Kulóskap was seeking For eggs along the seaside She stole away in silence, Away in the \_agwedʾn\_ That is, in the birch-canoe.

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**Who acts:** Kulóskap, death, That · **What happens:** seek, steal away, be · **To what, where:** seaside, silence, birch canoe

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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 (Kulóskap, death, 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:pg78673:12:51
# text = And while Kulóskap was seeking For eggs along the seaside She stole away in silence, Away in the _agwedʾn_ That is, in the birch-canoe.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	For	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	along	along	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	seaside	seaside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	agwedʾn	agwedʾn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
23	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	birch	birch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | past · progressive | Kulóskap |  |  | the seaside |  | for eggs; away *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for egg=Theme along seaside=Location |
| 2 | **steal away** | past | death | the seaside *not said here* |  | silence |  | away *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location seaside=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | That |  |  | the birch canoe |  |  | tree rules |

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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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