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title: When they drew very near The island where the foe, The cruel Iroquoi… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: When they drew very near The island where the foe, The cruel Iroquois, Were feasting on a moose, The beaver and the rat Dived deep beneath the stream, Causing that sudden plash Which even to this day Makes many a hunter jump. Who acts: gifts, foe, day. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other A
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 163

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When they drew very near The island where the foe, The cruel Iroquois, Were feasting on a moose, The beaver and the rat Dived deep beneath the stream, Causing that sudden plash Which even to this day Makes many a hunter jump.

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**Who acts:** gifts, foe, day · **What happens:** draw, feast, dive, cause, make · **To what, where:** island, sudden plash

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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 (gifts, foe, day), 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:pg78673:14:163
# text = When they drew very near The island where the foe, The cruel Iroquois, Were feasting on a moose, The beaver and the rat Dived deep beneath the stream, Causing that sudden plash Which even to this day Makes many a hunter jump.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	near	near	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Iroquois	Iroquois	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	Were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	feasting	feast	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	acl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	moose	moose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	beaver	beaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
27	Dived	dive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	Causing	cause	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	plash	plash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	obj	_	_
38	even	even	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	41	det	_	_
41	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	Makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
43	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	obj	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	jump	jump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | gifts *= gift* |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **feast** | past · progressive | the foe |  |  |  |  | on a moose and the beaver and the rat | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on moose=Patient |
| 3 | **dive** | past |  |  |  | the island |  | beneath the stream; deep *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near island=Location |
| 4 | **cause** | gerund |  | sudden plash |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition plash=Patient |
| 5 | **make** | present | this day | sudden plash |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset which=Beneficiary many=Product |

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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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