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title: One summer’s noon a hunter chanced to stray Close to a well-hid pond… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: sound, tribe. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 27

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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.

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**Who acts:** sound, tribe · **What happens:** chance, stray, hide, puzzle, plash, steal · **To what, where:** hunter, pond, forest, spray, alders, noon

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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 (sound, tribe), 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:pg78673:14:27
# text = 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.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	chanced	chance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	stray	stray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	Close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	conj	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
16	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	puzzled	puzzle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	plashing	plash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
29	spray	spray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
33	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	alders	alder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	peep	peep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chance** | participle |  | a hunter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **stray** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hide** | past |  | pond |  | forest |  | well *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pond=Patient in forest=Location |
| 4 | **puzzle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the sound; deep *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **plash** | gerund | the sound *not said here* | spray |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location spray=Theme |
| 6 | **steal** | past | tribe |  |  | the alders |  | for a peep | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind alder=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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