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title: And as she paddled away She sang in the Indian tongue: “_Nikedha pog… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: And as she paddled away She sang in the Indian tongue: “_Nikedha pogumʾk mʾneʿnuk Petesinel sagʾmawiw! Who acts: death. 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 52

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And as she paddled away She sang in the Indian tongue: “\_Nikedha pogumʾk mʾneʿnuk Petesinel sagʾmawiw!

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**Who acts:** death · **What happens:** paddle away, sing · **To what, where:** pogumʾk sagʾmawiw, Indian tongue

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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 (death), 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:pg78673:12:52
# text = And as she paddled away She sang in the Indian tongue: “_Nikedha pogumʾk mʾneʿnuk Petesinel sagʾmawiw!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	paddled	paddle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Nikedha	Nikedha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	pogumʾk	pogumʾk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
17	mʾneʿnuk	mʾneʿnuk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
18	Petesinel	Petesinel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	sagʾmawiw	sagʾmawiw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paddle away** | past | death |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | death | pogumʾk sagʾmawiw |  | the Indian tongue |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tongue=Location |

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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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