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title: Among these was a comely youth, And as he grew older he wondered Tha… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Among these was a comely youth, And as he grew older he wondered That most of his brothers and sisters Were dark and like the devils While he, and a few, were fair. Who acts: these, Pûjinskwes, That. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 12, with its dependency
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 96

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Among these was a comely youth, And as he grew older he wondered That most of his brothers and sisters Were dark and like the devils While he, and a few, were fair.

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**Who acts:** these, Pûjinskwes, That · **What happens:** be, grow, wonder

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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 (these, Pûjinskwes, 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:pg78673:12:96
# text = Among these was a comely youth, And as he grew older he wondered That most of his brothers and sisters Were dark and like the devils While he, and a few, were fair.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	comely	comely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
12	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	xcomp	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
16	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	Were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	devils	devil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
28	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
35	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | these |  |  |  |  | among a comely youth | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | past | Pûjinskwes |  |  |  |  | old *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | Pûjinskwes |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past | That  most of Pûjinskwes's brothers and sisters |  |  |  |  | the devils *conj*; dark *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | Pûjinskwes |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | 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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