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title: She looked afar No smoke was rising From Nipon’s wigwam: “She has no… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: She looked afar No smoke was rising From Nipon’s wigwam: “She has not returned,” Said the Rain-mother, So in her fear She went to the wigwam. Who acts: NIPON, smoke, Rain mother. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 131

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She looked afar No smoke was rising From Nipon’s wigwam: “She has not returned,” Said the Rain-mother, So in her fear She went to the wigwam.

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**Who acts:** NIPON, smoke, Rain mother · **What happens:** look, rise, not return, say, go, fear · **To what, where:** wigwam, fear · **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, smoke, Rain mother), 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:pg78673:16:131
# text = She looked afar No smoke was rising From Nipon’s wigwam: “She has not returned,” Said the Rain-mother, So in her fear She went to the wigwam.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	afar	afar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
4	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
8	From	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	Nipon	Nipon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
20	Said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	Rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	So	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
30	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | NIPON |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **rise** | past · progressive | no smoke |  |  | Nipon's wigwam |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from wigwam=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **not** **return** *in a quote* | present · perfect | NIPON |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Rain mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go** | past | NIPON |  |  | NIPON's fear |  | to the wigwam | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to wigwam=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **fear** |  | NIPON |  |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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