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title: He found upon the bank A lonely deserted wigwam, Therein he carried… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: He found upon the bank A lonely deserted wigwam, Therein he carried the dead, And, laying them down, he said: “_Nemchaase! Who acts: Master. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 15

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He found upon the bank A lonely deserted wigwam, Therein he carried the dead, And, laying them down, he said: “\_Nemchaase!

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**Who acts:** Master · **What happens:** find, desert, carry, lay down, say · **To what, where:** lonely deserted wigwam, dead, songs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Master), 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:pg78673:13:15
# text = He found upon the bank A lonely deserted wigwam, Therein he carried the dead, And, laying them down, he said: “_Nemchaase!
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	deserted	desert	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	Therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	laying	lay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Nemchaase	Nemchaase	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Master | a lonely deserted wigwam |  |  |  | upon the bank | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wigwam=Topic |
| 2 | **desert** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **carry** | past | Master | the dead |  |  |  | therein *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dead=Theme |
| 4 | **lay down** | gerund | Master *not said here* | songs *= song* |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Result |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Master |  |  |  |  | Nemchaase *parataxis* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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