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title: Now it came to pass in the morning, That old Dame Kâkâgûch, The medd… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Now it came to pass in the morning, That old Dame Kâkâgûch, The meddling and spying Crow, Observed that meat was drying In the smoke of the Master’s wigwam. Who acts: it, meat, wigwam. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 1

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Now it came to pass in the morning, That old Dame Kâkâgûch, The meddling and spying Crow, Observed that meat was drying In the smoke of the Master’s wigwam.

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**Who acts:** it, meat, wigwam · **What happens:** come, pass, spy, observe, dry, smoke · **To what, where:** old Dame Kâkâgûch, Crow, meddling, smoke

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, meat, wigwam), 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:pg78673:13:1
# text = Now it came to pass in the morning, That old Dame Kâkâgûch, The meddling and spying Crow, Observed that meat was drying In the smoke of the Master’s wigwam.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Dame	Dame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Kâkâgûch	Kâkâgûch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	meddling	meddling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	spying	spy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
19	Crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Observed	observe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	drying	dry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
26	In	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’s	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | it | old Dame Kâkâgûch  That |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | morning |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **spy** | gerund |  | Crow |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crow=Stimulus |
| 4 | **observe** | participle |  | the meddling *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **dry** | past · progressive | meat |  |  | the smoke of the Master's wigwam |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **smoke** |  | the Master's wigwam |  |  |  |  |  | nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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