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title: Soaring aloft the Pʾmûla at once was lost to view But after a brief… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Soaring aloft the Pʾmûla at once was lost to view But after a brief period returned and gave the man The two great eye-rings of a snake, and once again was gone. Who acts: Soaring. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 92

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Soaring aloft the Pʾmûla at once was lost to view But after a brief period returned and gave the man The two great eye-rings of a snake, and once again was gone.

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**Who acts:** Soaring · **What happens:** soar, lose, view, return, give, be · **To what, where:** Pʾmûla, man

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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 (Soaring), 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:pg78673:14:92
# text = Soaring aloft the Pʾmûla at once was lost to view But after a brief period returned and gave the man The two great eye-rings of a snake, and once again was gone.
1	Soaring	soar	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	csubj:pass	_	_
2	aloft	aloft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Pʾmûla	Pʾmûla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	obl	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	view	view	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	brief	brief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
16	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
22	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	33	advmod	_	_
33	again	again	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **soar** | gerund |  | the Pʾmûla |  |  |  | aloft *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme pʾmûla=Result |
| 2 | **lose** | past · passive | Soaring |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **view** | to-infinitive | Soaring *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **return** | past | Soaring *not said here* |  |  |  | after a brief period |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | past | Soaring *not said here* | the man  the two great eye rings of a snake |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | Soaring *not said here* |  |  |  | again | gone *property* | tree rules |

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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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