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title: Then afar in a path in the forest He met with another man, And was g… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then afar in a path in the forest He met with another man, And was greatly amazed at the sight, Because the other was bearing A very large birch wigwam, A dwelling with many rooms. Who acts: game, large birch wigwam. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18, wi
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 139

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Then afar in a path in the forest He met with another man, And was greatly amazed at the sight, Because the other was bearing A very large birch wigwam, A dwelling with many rooms.

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**Who acts:** game, large birch wigwam · **What happens:** meet, be, bear, dwell · **To what, where:** forest, sight, large birch wigwam

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (game, large birch wigwam), 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:pg78673:18:139
# text = Then afar in a path in the forest He met with another man, And was greatly amazed at the sight, Because the other was bearing A very large birch wigwam, A dwelling with many rooms.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	afar	afar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	mark	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	amazed	amazed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	Because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
28	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	very	very	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	birch	birch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	dwelling	dwell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | game | the forest *not said here* |  |  |  | with another man | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent forest=Theme with man=Instrument |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the sight |  | amazed, greatly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bear** | past · progressive |  | a large birch wigwam |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wigwam=Patient |
| 4 | **dwell** | gerund | a large birch wigwam *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with many rooms | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with room=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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