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title: Dipping her wing in the water she sprayed it Little by little upon t… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Dipping her wing in the water she sprayed it Little by little upon the fire; Little by little the fire, like Monimques Sunk to sleep, and the bright red flame Lay down to rest in the dull gray ashes. Who acts: grandson, bright red flame. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems»,
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 95

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Dipping her wing in the water she sprayed it Little by little upon the fire; Little by little the fire, like Monimques Sunk to sleep, and the bright red flame Lay down to rest in the dull gray ashes.

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**Who acts:** grandson, bright red flame · **What happens:** dip, spray, sleep, rest · **To what, where:** wing, water, fire, dull gray ashes

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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 (grandson, bright red flame), 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:pg78673:17:95
# text = Dipping her wing in the water she sprayed it Little by little upon the fire; Little by little the fire, like Monimques Sunk to sleep, and the bright red flame Lay down to rest in the dull gray ashes.
1	Dipping	dip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sprayed	spray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Monimques	Monimques	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
25	Sunk	Sunk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
34	Lay	Lay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
35	down	down	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
40	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
41	gray	gray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dip** | gerund |  | grandson's wing |  | the water |  |  | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent wing=Theme in water=Trajectory |
| 2 | **spray** | past | grandson | wing |  | the fire |  | Little *obl:unmarked*; Monimques *parataxis* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon fire=Destination |
| 3 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | grandson *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **rest** | to-infinitive | the bright red flame |  |  | the dull gray ashes |  | down *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ash=Location |

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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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