--- title: Opening, part 14 — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · full text with trees description: Opening, part 14, «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems»: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: He said. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Kulóskap the master, and other Algonki…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/) / Opening, part 14 # Opening, part 14 Opening, part 14 of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems»: the whole text, 167 sentences and 2847 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/14/page/2/) He said.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") “I must go again To be absent hunting to-morrow.”[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") He went to the top of a hill Overlooking the lake, where he watched her.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") She went and sat by the shore; Then rose afar in the water What seemed to his sight to be A shining flake of ice, But when it came to the shore ’Twas a tall and slender man All clad, as it seemed, in silver.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") The woman leapt up and embraced him, And gave him many kisses.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") The husband in awe and anger Went forth to other people, And left his wife forever; But soon her father and mother Came to her home to see her, And dwelt with her many days.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") And every day, when returning From an absence they knew not whither, She brought them furs and venison, With fish and fowl in plenty.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") They asked her whence she had it?[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") She answered, “I have another, A husband who suits me better Than him whom first I married.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") This one can give me all.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") He is a better hunter.”[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") She sent them away with presents, With many silver bracelets, With many ear-rings and brooches And said: “Do not return Till the ice is here in winter.”[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") When they returned they found her White as a silver lily: Her Indian hue had faded; And soon she gave birth to offspring But her children all were serpents.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the parents went away; But even as they left her She said: “When you come again You will see me but never know me!”[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") Years after three Indian hunters Who had heard this wondrous story Sought by the lake for the wigwam.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") It was standing still, but empty, But all the wood about it Was full of great black serpents Which from the grass uprising Would look them in the face Then glide away in silence.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") L.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") FOOTNOTES:[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") \[47\] Far away in the north.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") III[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") THE WIZARD SNAKE[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") \[\_Abenaki\_\][22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") \_Noñwat nizwak noñkskwesizak.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") \_\[48\][24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") Long years ago, two lovely Indian girls Were wont to leave their people every week, Embarking secretly in birch canoe.[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") Their tribe knew neither why nor where they went.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") One summer’s noon a hunter chanced to stray Close to a well-hid pond in forest deep, Where, puzzled by the sound of plashing spray, He stole behind the alders for a peep.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") There swam the damsels in abandoned glee, Their hair all streaming with a loathly snake.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") Then when they felt the hunter’s look of awe Straightway they dived beneath the surface foul.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") In horror, back the hunter made his way And told the Indians what his eyes had seen.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") Then, all together left the happy town And struggling through the brush and tangled wood Went straightway to that fearsome pool to save The damsels from a fate too dread to tell.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") But ah, when they drew near, they heard them sing, All sad and woful in a wailing chant: “No more, no more may we turn back again, For mortal eye hath seen us in our sin.”[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") P.[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") FOOTNOTES:[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") \[48\] Long ago there were two maidens.[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") IV[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") THE MEASURING WORM[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") \[\_Abenaki\_\][38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") \_Noñwat alnoñbak liwʾlalmoñldamōk Ali mʾdaulinʾwak aïdit.[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") \_\[49\][40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") Long, long ago the Indians believed in witches’ power.[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") One day a man was hunting far from human sights and sounds, Deep in the wildest forest glades, nor thought of magic wiles, When suddenly he heard a voice which said to him: “Depart, And come again to this same spot at earliest streak of dawn.”[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") Awestruck, the hunter at the hour appointed sought once more To hear the mystic tones which came to him he knew not whence.[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") So at the morrow’s dawn he trod again the darksome glade; And once again he heard the voice command him in this wise: “Begone from here and seek the spot where yawns a precipice.[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") There on the earth thine eyes shall see a liver freshly cut This eat and then depart; but come again, I’ll give thee strength.”[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") Then on the following day, he brought his bow and arrows sharp And heard the voice command him: “Do thou shoot at yonder tree,” He shot, and saw his arrow pass straight through the doomèd tree.[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") Astonished beyond measure then, he bade his mother look.[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") “\_O kini nikʾn\_,” “mother, see,” he cried in wonder great.[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") His mother saw and straightway feared; began to watch the lad, And marked that when he lay at night no sleep would come to him, But always after little time he’d rise and steal away, Till daylight dawned and then he would come creeping back to bed.[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") At last, all tortured by her pain and harrowed by her fears, She questioned him and said: “My son, where hast thou been all night?”[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") Quoth he: “My friend and I have played together in the wood.”[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") She asked once more: “My son, pray tell what is it that you do.”[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") “We have been killing serpents vile and eating them,” said he; “A serpent’s liver eaten giveth magic gifts to man.[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") I am not as I was before, but have the power to move And climb from ledge to ledge as doth a worm, upon my head.[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") My friend hath taught me how to pass through ways impassable To all save us.”[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") “Who is thy friend?”[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") His mother asked of him.[57](57/ "tree and pragmatics") “His name is Tatebákwunowat, which means ‘a Measuring Worm.’[58](58/ "tree and pragmatics") Of sport like this I never dreamed;” and yet the mother feared, And told her agèd husband that their son was lost to them; For he’d become \_mʾdaulin\_ and endowed with secret might.[59](59/ "tree and pragmatics") Then spake the father: “This shall cease; I know a way to save The foolish lad.”[60](60/ "tree and pragmatics") So when the evening came, he locked him in And would not let him forth to roam in spite of all his prayers.[61](61/ "tree and pragmatics") Then came the sound of some one walking heavily and hard, The old man looked and saw a Thing of horror at his door, Large eyes, short arms, short body and long legs of insect shape.[62](62/ "tree and pragmatics") “Set free thy son thou foolish one,” the loathsome wizard cried.[63](63/ "tree and pragmatics") “Not I,” replied the father, and at once let fall the flap Before his wigwam door.[64](64/ "tree and pragmatics") The lad grew very ill and begged, Entreated and implored that he might be allowed to roam As he had done before, but only got the answer “No.”[65](65/ "tree and pragmatics") Yet once again when morning’s light shone whitely on the trees, Another wizard slowly came before the wigwam door.[66](66/ "tree and pragmatics") At his approach the leaves and shrubs all rustled as from wind.[67](67/ "tree and pragmatics") “Why dost thou seek to keep thy son from getting magic power?[68](68/ "tree and pragmatics") He hath the magic gift to be the greatest of the great Among us men who practise arts unknown to thee and thine.”[69](69/ "tree and pragmatics") So spoke the wizard scornfully; the father stern replied: “I have no wish that son of mine should be like thee and thine.”[70](70/ "tree and pragmatics") Then quoth the wizard: “Thou shalt see thy son die here to-night, For we have taken him too far to let him back to thee.”[71](71/ "tree and pragmatics") “I care not if he die or no,” the father answering said, And moaning with an angry moan the wizard drew away And soon was lost to sight amid the waving forest leaves.[72](72/ "tree and pragmatics") In awful agony the boy lay stretched upon the earth Retching and crying out as one who soon must breathe his last.[73](73/ "tree and pragmatics") Till suddenly he vomited a mass of serpent skins, And then at last cast up the magic liver from his mouth.[74](74/ "tree and pragmatics") This was the end of all his woe, for when that loathsome thing Had left his body he arose all strong and purged and clean And never more was known to seek to practise magic arts.[75](75/ "tree and pragmatics") P.[76](76/ "tree and pragmatics") FOOTNOTES:[77](77/ "tree and pragmatics") \[49\] Long ago the Indians believed there were wizards.[78](78/ "tree and pragmatics") V[79](79/ "tree and pragmatics") THE PʾMULA OR AIR-DEMON[80](80/ "tree and pragmatics") \[\_Abenaki\_\][81](81/ "tree and pragmatics") \_Noñwat agua ni alnoñbak pʾmigowak kʾpiwi.[82](82/ "tree and pragmatics") \_\[50\][83](83/ "tree and pragmatics") In days of yore some Indians were camping in the woods And one of them when near a stream heard a strange sound o’erhead.[84](84/ "tree and pragmatics") At once he looked and lo he saw a sprite of upper air, Called by the Indians, Pʾmûla, alighting on a ledge.[85](85/ "tree and pragmatics") The demon took a piece of yellow metal from his lips And bent himself to drink and then, restoring to his mouth The metal, spread his spacious wings and, rising, soared away.[86](86/ "tree and pragmatics") The man perceived that power to fly lay hidden in this charm, And so at once decided he would steal the thing away.[87](87/ "tree and pragmatics") It was not long before he heard again the rush of wings.[88](88/ "tree and pragmatics") This time, though, when the demon had alighted, he ran forth, And, snatching up the yellow charm, said, laughingly: “Ha, ha, My friend, do thou lie there a while, and I will fly about!”[89](89/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the Pʾmûla told the man: “If thou wilt let me go, I’ll give to thee another charm which aye will bring thee luck.”[90](90/ "tree and pragmatics") The Indian at once believed the demon’s given word And gave him back the yellow charm which brings the power of flight.[91](91/ "tree and pragmatics") Soaring aloft the Pʾmûla at once was lost to view But after a brief period returned and gave the man The two great eye-rings of a snake, and once again was gone.[92](92/ "tree and pragmatics") No sooner had the hapless wight these eye-rings in his hands, Than every kind of snake and beast that roam the northern woods Surrounded him, till, terrified, he rushed to his canoe.[93](93/ "tree and pragmatics") E’en there a giant serpent’s head confronted him agape.[94](94/ "tree and pragmatics") Then, quite beside himself with fear, he fled to thickest wood, And when at length all out of breath and weary with the chase He had to pause, he saw that still a host of snakes was there.[95](95/ "tree and pragmatics") Then suddenly he thought: “This dread comes from the magic rings.”[96](96/ "tree and pragmatics") **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/14/page/2/) - ← previous: [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/13/) - next →: [page 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/14/page/2/) - ↑ back to [Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/)