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title: The news spread afar, Soon there came flying The wasps and the horne… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The news spread afar, Soon there came flying The wasps and the hornets, The bees and the black flies, The angry mosquitoes: Even the midges, The little Chessúyek Came to the rescue Of Lappilatwan. Who acts: news. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 16, with i
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 81

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The news spread afar, Soon there came flying The wasps and the hornets, The bees and the black flies, The angry mosquitoes: Even the midges, The little Chessúyek Came to the rescue Of Lappilatwan.

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**Who acts:** news · **What happens:** spread, come, fly, rescue · **To what, where:** midges, wasps, Lappilatwan

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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 (news), 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:pg78673:16:81
# text = The news spread afar, Soon there came flying The wasps and the hornets, The bees and the black flies, The angry mosquitoes: Even the midges, The little Chessúyek Came to the rescue Of Lappilatwan.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	afar	afar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wasps	wasp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hornets	hornet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	midges	midge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	Chessúyek	Chessúyek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Came	came	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	rescue	rescue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Lappilatwan	Lappilatwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	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 | **spread** | past | the news |  |  |  |  | afar *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | the news *not said here* | the midges  the little Chessúyek Came to the rescue of Lappilatwan |  | there |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fly** | gerund | the news *not said here* | the wasps and the hornets and the bees and the black flies and the angry mosquitoes |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wasp=Theme |
| 4 | **rescue** |  |  | Lappilatwan |  |  |  |  | nom rescue «act 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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