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title: When morning dawned he thought he saw his mother drawing near And, r… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: When morning dawned he thought he saw his mother drawing near And, rushing to her side, he held her fast in firm embrace. Who acts: lad, mother. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 111

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When morning dawned he thought he saw his mother drawing near And, rushing to her side, he held her fast in firm embrace.

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**Who acts:** lad, mother · **What happens:** dawn, think, see, draw, rush, hold · **To what, where:** mother, firm embrace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, mother), 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:pg78673:14:111
# text = When morning dawned he thought he saw his mother drawing near And, rushing to her side, he held her fast in firm embrace.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	dawned	dawn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	near	near	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	firm	firm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	embrace	embrace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dawn** | past | lad *not said here* |  |  |  | morning |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | lad |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | lad | lad's mother |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus |
| 4 | **draw** | gerund | lad's mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **rush** | gerund | lad's mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to mother's side *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to side=Result |
| 6 | **hold** | past | lad | mother |  | firm embrace |  | fast *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in embrace=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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