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title: And every day, when returning From an absence they knew not whither,… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: And every day, when returning From an absence they knew not whither, She brought them furs and venison, With fish and fowl in plenty. Who acts: father, wife. 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 7

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And every day, when returning From an absence they knew not whither, She brought them furs and venison, With fish and fowl in plenty.

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**Who acts:** father, wife · **What happens:** return, not know, bring · **To what, where:** absence, father

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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 (father, wife), 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:pg78673:14:7
# text = And every day, when returning From an absence they knew not whither, She brought them furs and venison, With fish and fowl in plenty.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	returning	return	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
7	From	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
13	whither	whither	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	furs	fur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	venison	venison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	With	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	fowl	fowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | gerund |  |  |  | a absence |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from absence=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **not** **know** | past | father | a absence *not said here* |  |  |  | whither *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer absence=Stimulus |
| 3 | **bring** | past | wife | father |  |  | day | furs and venison and fish and fowl in plenty *obj* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination fur=Theme |

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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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