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title: On its topmost branch they built a wigwam; Bad little Indians never… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: On its topmost branch they built a wigwam; Bad little Indians never came near them Hunting for birds with their bows and arrows, Nor the wicked whirlwind looking for leaves. Who acts: branches, Bad little Indians, wicked whirlwind. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Openi
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 61

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On its topmost branch they built a wigwam; Bad little Indians never came near them Hunting for birds with their bows and arrows, Nor the wicked whirlwind looking for leaves.

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**Who acts:** branches, Bad little Indians, wicked whirlwind · **What happens:** build, not come, hunt, look · **To what, where:** wigwam, topmost branch

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (branches, Bad little Indians, wicked whirlwind), 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:pg78673:17:61
# text = On its topmost branch they built a wigwam; Bad little Indians never came near them Hunting for birds with their bows and arrows, Nor the wicked whirlwind looking for leaves.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	topmost	topmost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	near	near	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	Hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	bows	bow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Nor	Nor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
30	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | branches *= branch* | a wigwam |  | tree's topmost branch |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wigwam=Theme on branch=Source |
| 2 | **not** **come** | past | Bad little Indians |  |  |  |  | near branches *= branch* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near they=Location |
| 3 | **hunt** | gerund | Bad little Indians *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for birds; with branches's bows  Nor and arrows | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for bird=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | gerund | the wicked whirlwind *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for leaves | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for leaf=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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