--- title: Opening, part 18 — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · full text with trees description: Opening, part 18, «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems»: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: There was a woman, long, long ago, She came out of a pit In which dead people were buried; She made her home in a tree; She was dressed in leaves; --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Kulóskap the master, and other Algonki…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/) / Opening, part 18 # Opening, part 18 Opening, part 18 of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems»: the whole text, 168 sentences and 2593 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/18/page/2/) There was a woman, long, long ago, She came out of a pit In which dead people were buried; She made her home in a tree; She was dressed in leaves; All long, long ago.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") When she walked among the dry leaves, Her feet were so covered That they could not be seen; She walked in the woods Singing all the time: “I want company: I am lonesome!”[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") All long, long ago\![3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") From afar o’er the lakes and mountains A wild man heard her cry; He came to her, she saw him, Saw him and was afraid; She tried to flee away, For he was clothed with the rainbow, Color and light were his garments.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") She ran and he pursued her, Pursued her rapidly, Unto the foot of a mountain.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") He spoke in a strange language, She could not understand him.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") He would make her tell where she dwelt.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") They married and had two children One of them was a boy, A boy who was blind from his birth.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") But he frightened his mother by his sight; He could tell her what was coming: What was coming from afar, What was near he could not see.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") He could see the bear and moose, Far away beyond the mountains; He could see through everything.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") The father was a great being, He was a mighty hunter; His wife had magic gifts.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") A boy was born to them Alas, the boy was blind\![12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") In time his sight returned, He said that he could see.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") The mother did not believe it, She thought it was magic sight.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") So one day she bade her husband Put on him certain things Which no one could behold Who saw them not with eyes As every one could see them.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") And then she asked the boy “What is it that your father Uses to pull his sled?”[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") Promptly the child replied “The rainbow.”[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") Then she said: “What has he for a bow-string?”[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") To which his answer was “It is Ketaksuwauʿt That is the Spirits’ Road” (Meaning the Milky Way).[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") Yet once more she inquired: “What has he on his sled?”[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") “A beaver,” he replied; She knew that he could see.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") It would appear from collateral indications of other songs in different tribes that this song is of very great antiquity.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") The first portion of it was chanted to Mrs. W. Wallace Brown by an old Indian woman; the remainder was recovered from the Passamaquoddy Thomas Josephs or Tamaquah.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") There appears to be in the myth, for such it undoubtedly is, a refinement of philosophic or theosophic speculation.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") This is shown in the conception of the young magician, or poet, so gifted though \_blind\_ that his mother could not determine whether he saw all things by \_clairvoyance\_ or natural vision.[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") L.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") FOOTNOTES:[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") \[66\] Long ago there was a woman who came out of a pit where dead people are buried.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") V[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") PASSAMAQUODDY LOVE SONG[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") ORIGINAL TEXT[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") Anigowanotenu\![32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") Boski ktabin elmi nelemwik Elmi papkeyik; boski ktlabin, Anigowanotenu\![33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") Neket mpesel etli-nemiotyikw.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") Etuchi wlinakwben sebayi sibuk; Etuchi wli baquasketen.[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") Kʾmachtina nolithasiben.[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") Mechinoltena keppithamʾl.[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") Anigowanotenu\![38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") Boski ktlabin elmi nelemwik Elmi papkeyik; boski ktlabin, Anigowanotenu\![39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") Negetlo he eli-alnisukmekwben Sibayi guspenik Etuchi welanakwsititben wuchowek He eli-machip klamisken mipisel.[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") Anigowanotenu\![41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") Anigowanotenu\![42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") Nittloch apch eli-alnisuknukw tan etuch apachyaie; Tan etuch boski pʾkesik mipisel Yut pemden nit kʾtlaskuyin.[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") Anigowanotenu\![44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") Boski kʾtlabin elmi nelemwik Elmi papkeyik; Boski kʾtlabin, Anigowanotenu\![45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") V[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") PASSAMAQUODDY LOVE SONG[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") Anigowanotenû\![48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") Oft these lonely days thou look’st On beauteous river and down shining stream.[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") Oft thou look’st and sighest deep, Anigowanotenû\![50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") With me thy lover by thy side How fair that stream did bubble on\![51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") How lovely was the silver moon\![52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") Thy heart now tells thee of that joy.[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") E’en unto death I think of thee.[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") Anigowanotenû\![55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") Oft these lonely days thou look’st On beauteous river and down shining stream.[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") Oft thou look’st and sighest deep.[57](57/ "tree and pragmatics") Anigowanotenû\![58](58/ "tree and pragmatics") When we in birch canoe did glide Together on that glistening lake, How fair the hills and how we watched The \_red\_ leaves whirling in the breeze.[59](59/ "tree and pragmatics") Anigowanotenû\![60](60/ "tree and pragmatics") Anigowanotenû\![61](61/ "tree and pragmatics") We’ll rove once more in bark canoe And watch the \_green\_ leaves swirl on high When spring smiles on the mountain tops.[62](62/ "tree and pragmatics") Anigowanotenû\![63](63/ "tree and pragmatics") Oft these lonely days thou look’st On beauteous river and down shining stream.[64](64/ "tree and pragmatics") Oft thou look’st and sighest deep.[65](65/ "tree and pragmatics") Anigowanotenû\![66](66/ "tree and pragmatics") P.[67](67/ "tree and pragmatics") VI[68](68/ "tree and pragmatics") THE SONG OF THE STARS[69](69/ "tree and pragmatics") \[\_Passamaquoddy text\_\][70](70/ "tree and pragmatics") Nilun pesazmuk elintaquik.[71](71/ "tree and pragmatics") Ntʾlintotebin kʾpesaukhenmâgonok.[72](72/ "tree and pragmatics") Nilun sipsizuk squʿtek; Kʾpʾmitoiapon pissokiqs Kʾpesaukhenmagon pesazum.[73](73/ "tree and pragmatics") Kʾtʾlintoanen âût niwesquok; Otâût Kʾchî-Niwesq Koitchimkononnoak nohowok katonkewinoak, Nosokoat moinial Nit mesq tepnaskwiewis Mesq katonketitiq Ketlapinen pemtenikek Yot lintoakʾn pemtenikek.[74](74/ "tree and pragmatics") VI[75](75/ "tree and pragmatics") THE SONG OF THE STARS[76](76/ "tree and pragmatics") We are the stars which sing.[77](77/ "tree and pragmatics") We sing with our light.[78](78/ "tree and pragmatics") We are the birds of fire We fly across the heaven, Our light is a star.[79](79/ "tree and pragmatics") We make a road for Spirits, A road for the Great Spirit.[80](80/ "tree and pragmatics") Among us are three hunters Who chase a bear: There never was a time When they were not hunting; We look down on the mountains.[81](81/ "tree and pragmatics") This is the Song of the mountains.[82](82/ "tree and pragmatics") L. & P.[83](83/ "tree and pragmatics") VII[84](84/ "tree and pragmatics") HOW THE INDIANS LOST THEIR POWER[85](85/ "tree and pragmatics") \[\_Penobscot\_\][86](86/ "tree and pragmatics") \_Uskichinwi pilskwessis muiso Ktatnok Naya kamach okiwachitahasin.[87](87/ "tree and pragmatics") \_\[67\][88](88/ "tree and pragmatics") All of the olden time\![89](89/ "tree and pragmatics") Once as an Indian girl Was gathering blue-berries, On Mount Katahdin’s side, She felt a strange loneliness, And said unto herself: “I would that I were wed Unto some brave great man!”[90](90/ "tree and pragmatics") And, seeing the great mount In glory rising high E’en as ’twere to heaven (White the red sunlight shone Upon the very head), She said: “A man indeed, Like great Katahdin there\![91](91/ "tree and pragmatics") High rising over all, That were the man for me.”[92](92/ "tree and pragmatics") This she was heard to say Ere she went further on Up to the mountain top-- Three years then passed away Ere she was seen again, And then when she returned ’Twas with a charming child, The fairest in the land; Only one thing was strange: His eyebrows were of stone.[93](93/ "tree and pragmatics") She had been wed in truth, To Mount Katahdin’s self; The Spirit of the Mount Had ta’en her to himself, And when she greatly longed To see her folk again, He said: “Then go in peace.”[94](94/ "tree and pragmatics") But one thing he forbade With terrible command: That she should ever tell To any mortal soul Who ’twas had married her.[95](95/ "tree and pragmatics") The boy had wondrous gifts; The sages of the tribe Said he was soon to be A mighty sorcerer; For when he did but point His finger at the moose, Or anything which ran, At once it would drop dead, Killed by his magic will; And, when in a canoe He pointed at the ducks, The wild fowl swam no more, And all the water round Was full of floating game Which all might gather in, As freely as they would.[96](96/ "tree and pragmatics") And so it came to pass That through that wondrous Boy The mother and her tribe Had ever food enough.[97](97/ "tree and pragmatics") Now this is all the truth, And ’twas a wondrous thing, As ever yet was told.[98](98/ "tree and pragmatics") Katahdin the great lord Of the Wabanaki; The children of the Light, Or of the Break of Day; Had wed him to the girl That she might have a child Who should raise up the tribe, And make them great once more Even a mighty race, The Lords of all the land.[99](99/ "tree and pragmatics") And so to her he said: “Declare unto thy folk That they shall never ask Of thee, who was the sire Of this brave lad, our son; They’ll know it all right well If they but see his face, And thou shalt not be teased By questions and by talk From fools who fain would know The by-ways of a god.”[100](100/ "tree and pragmatics") And so she made it known That none should question her, And gave them all their food, And bade them let her be\![101](101/ "tree and pragmatics") **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/18/page/2/) - ← previous: [Opening, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/17/) - next →: [page 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/18/page/2/) - ↑ back to [Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/)