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title: And yet this Wolverine Who was wise in all that’s bad, Wicked and wi… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: And yet this Wolverine Who was wise in all that’s bad, Wicked and witty in sin, Had not indeed gone far Or out-walked the afternoon, Before he began to think, As he shivered and cursed the cold, Of lighting another fire. Who acts: Wolverine, Had. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonki
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 21

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And yet this Wolverine Who was wise in all that’s bad, Wicked and witty in sin, Had not indeed gone far Or out-walked the afternoon, Before he began to think, As he shivered and cursed the cold, Of lighting another fire.

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**Who acts:** Wolverine, Had · **What happens:** be, not go, walk, begin, think, shiver · **To what, where:** that, cold Of lighting · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolverine, Had), 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:pg78673:19:21
# text = And yet this Wolverine Who was wise in all that’s bad, Wicked and witty in sin, Had not indeed gone far Or out-walked the afternoon, Before he began to think, As he shivered and cursed the cold, Of lighting another fire.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	Wolverine	Wolverine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
12	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	witty	witty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	Had	Had	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
24	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
25	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	shivered	shiver	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	ccomp	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	cursed	curse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	conj	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
44	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
46	Of	of	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	lighting	lighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
48	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	49	det	_	_
49	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this Wolverine |  |  | that | yet | Who *nsubj*; wise *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **go** | participle | Had |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **walk** | past | Had *not said here* |  |  |  | afternoon | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **begin** | past | Had |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Had *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **shiver** | past | Had |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **curse** | past | Had *not said here* | the cold Of lighting |  |  |  | another fire *obj* | tree rules |

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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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