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title: Years after three Indian hunters Who had heard this wondrous story S… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Years after three Indian hunters Who had heard this wondrous story Sought by the lake for the wigwam. Who acts: three Indian hunters. 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 15

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Years after three Indian hunters Who had heard this wondrous story Sought by the lake for the wigwam.

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**Who acts:** three Indian hunters · **What happens:** hear, seek · **To what, where:** wondrous story

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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 (three Indian hunters), 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:pg78673:14:15
# text = Years after three Indian hunters Who had heard this wondrous story Sought by the lake for the wigwam.
1	Years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	Sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · perfect | three Indian hunters  Years | this wondrous story |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
| 2 | **seek** | participle |  | this wondrous story *not said here* |  |  |  | by the lake for the wigwam | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent by lake=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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