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title: The herald, springing to land, first sang his salutation song (_nʾsk… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The herald, springing to land, first sang his salutation song (_nʾskawewintuagun_), walking back and forth before the ranks of the other tribe. Who acts: herald. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 37

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The herald, springing to land, first sang his salutation song (\_nʾskawewintuagun\_), walking back and forth before the ranks of the other tribe.

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**Who acts:** herald · **What happens:** spring, sing, walk back · **To what, where:** land, salutation song, ranks

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (herald), 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:pg78673:20:37
# text = The herald, springing to land, first sang his salutation song (_nʾskawewintuagun_), walking back and forth before the ranks of the other tribe.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	herald	herald	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	springing	spring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	advmod	_	_
9	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	salutation	salutation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	nʾskawewintuagun	nʾskawewintuagun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	20	conj	_	_
23	before	before	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	ranks	rank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring** | gerund | the herald *not said here* |  |  | land |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to land=Destination |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the herald | herald's salutation song |  |  |  | first *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 3 | **walk back** | gerund | the herald *not said here* |  |  | the ranks of the other tribe |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before rank=Trajectory |
| 4 | **sing** |  | herald |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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