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title: In days of yore some Indians were camping in the woods And one of th… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: In days of yore some Indians were camping in the woods And one of them when near a stream heard a strange sound o’erhead. Who acts: Indians, one. 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 84

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In days of yore some Indians were camping in the woods And one of them when near a stream heard a strange sound o’erhead.

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**Who acts:** Indians, one · **What happens:** camp, hear · **To what, where:** woods, strange sound o’erhead

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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 (Indians, one), 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:pg78673:14:84
# text = In days of yore some Indians were camping in the woods And one of them when near a stream heard a strange sound o’erhead.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	yore	yore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	camping	camp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
17	near	near	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	o’erhead	o'erhead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **camp** | past · progressive | some Indians |  |  | the woods | day |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location |
| 2 | **hear** | past | one of Indians | a strange sound o’erhead |  |  |  | a stream *nsubj* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer o'erhead=Stimulus |

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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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