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title: But as Lox was persevering, He hopefully kept on jumping, Till after… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: But as Lox was persevering, He hopefully kept on jumping, Till after some thirty efforts There arose a little smoke Which came as if it were angry At being so frequently called, And then returned no more. Who acts: Lox, thirty efforts, little smoke, smoke. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and oth
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 33

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But as Lox was persevering, He hopefully kept on jumping, Till after some thirty efforts There arose a little smoke Which came as if it were angry At being so frequently called, And then returned no more.

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**Who acts:** Lox, thirty efforts, little smoke, smoke · **What happens:** persevere, keep, jump, arise, come, be · **To what, where:** little smoke, more · **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 (Lox, thirty efforts, little smoke, smoke), 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:pg78673:19:33
# text = But as Lox was persevering, He hopefully kept on jumping, Till after some thirty efforts There arose a little smoke Which came as if it were angry At being so frequently called, And then returned no more.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	Lox	Lox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	persevering	persevere	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	hopefully	hopefully	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	Till	till	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
16	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
18	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	advcl	_	_
30	At	at	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	aux:pass	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	advmod	_	_
38	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
39	no	no	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **persevere** | past · progressive | Lox |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | past | Lox |  |  |  |  | hopefully *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **jump** | gerund | Lox *not said here* |  |  |  | till some thirty efforts |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **arise** | past | some thirty efforts *not said here* | a little smoke |  | there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location smoke=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | past | a little smoke |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | smoke |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **call** | gerund · passive | smoke *not said here* |  |  |  |  | frequently *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
| 8 | **return** | past | Lox *not said here* | more |  |  | then |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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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