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title: This mischief-making wizard straightway knew That he was being follo… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: This mischief-making wizard straightway knew That he was being followed, so he changed Himself into a hooting, snowy owl That wakes the echoes of the forest night. Who acts: mischief, snowy owl. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 30

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This mischief-making wizard straightway knew That he was being followed, so he changed Himself into a hooting, snowy owl That wakes the echoes of the forest night.

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**Who acts:** mischief, snowy owl · **What happens:** make, know, follow, change, wake · **To what, where:** wizard straightway, That, mischief, hooting, echoes

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mischief, snowy owl), 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:pg78673:15:30
# text = This mischief-making wizard straightway knew That he was being followed, so he changed Himself into a hooting, snowy owl That wakes the echoes of the forest night.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	wizard	wizard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	straightway	straightway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	obj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	Himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hooting	hooting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
24	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	nsubj	_	_
25	wakes	wake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	echoes	echo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **make** | gerund | this mischief *not said here* | wizard straightway |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset straightway=Product |
| 2 | **know** | past | this mischief | That |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 3 | **follow** | past · passive |  | mischief |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **change** | past | mischief | mischief |  |  |  | into a hooting *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into hooting=Result |
| 5 | **wake** | present | snowy owl | the echoes of the forest night |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent echo=Patient |

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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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