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title: There they arrived at night; A great festivity Was stirring all the… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: There they arrived at night; A great festivity Was stirring all the town, Torches were everywhere, And everywhere the scent Of _mskîkwul wʾli-mhaskil_, Which is the perfumed grass Burning intensely sweet. Who acts: eyes, great festivity, Torches, mskîkwul wʾli mhaskil. A sentence of «Kulóskap the ma
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 18

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There they arrived at night; A great festivity Was stirring all the town, Torches were everywhere, And everywhere the scent Of \_mskîkwul wʾli-mhaskil\_, Which is the perfumed grass Burning intensely sweet.

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**Who acts:** eyes, great festivity, Torches, mskîkwul wʾli mhaskil, perfumed grass · **What happens:** arrive, stir, be, perfume, burn, scent · **To what, where:** town, perfumed grass, mskîkwul wʾli mhaskil

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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 (eyes, great festivity, Torches, mskîkwul wʾli mhaskil), 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:pg78673:16:18
# text = There they arrived at night; A great festivity Was stirring all the town, Torches were everywhere, And everywhere the scent Of _mskîkwul wʾli-mhaskil_, Which is the perfumed grass Burning intensely sweet.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	festivity	festivity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	stirring	stir	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	Torches	torch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	23	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	scent	scent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
24	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	mskîkwul	mskîkwul	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	wʾli	wʾli	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	mhaskil	mhaskil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	perfumed	perfume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	amod	_	_
36	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
37	Burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	acl	_	_
38	intensely	intensely	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | eyes *= eye* |  |  | there | night | the scent of mskîkwul wʾli mhaskil *conj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stir** | past · progressive | a great festivity | all town |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus town=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | Torches |  |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **perfume** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present | mskîkwul wʾli mhaskil | the perfumed grass |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **burn** | gerund | the perfumed grass *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sweet *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **scent** |  |  | mskîkwul wʾli mhaskil |  |  |  |  | nom scent «cognition transitive»: of=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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