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title: Among us are three hunters Who chase a bear: There never was a time… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: us, time, bear, We. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 81

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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.

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**Who acts:** us, time, bear, We · **What happens:** be, chase, not be, not hunt, look down · **To what, where:** bear

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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 (us, time, bear, We), 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:pg78673:18:81
# text = 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.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
6	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	chase	chase	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
16	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
24	down	down	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | us |  |  |  |  | among three hunters | tree rules |
| 2 | **chase** | present |  | a bear |  |  |  | Who *nsubj* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **be** | past | a time |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **hunt** | past · progressive | bear |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **look down** | present | We |  |  |  |  | on the mountains; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on mountain=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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