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title: Stopping a little To think of the wonder, She heard a whisper, The v… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Stopping a little To think of the wonder, She heard a whisper, The voice of the Rain: “Stay, my daughter!” Who acts: NIPON. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 126

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Stopping a little To think of the wonder, She heard a whisper, The voice of the Rain: “Stay, my daughter!”

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**Who acts:** NIPON · **What happens:** stop, think, hear, stay · **To what, where:** little, whisper, daughter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (NIPON), 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:pg78673:16:126
# text = Stopping a little To think of the wonder, She heard a whisper, The voice of the Rain: “Stay, my daughter!”
1	Stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obj	_	_
4	To	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	whisper	whisper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | gerund | NIPON *not said here* | a little |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality little=Eventuality |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | NIPON *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the wonder | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hear** | past | NIPON | a whisper and the voice of the Rain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stay** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | my daughter |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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