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title: The _noochila-kalwet_ or herald went about the village crying _wikw-… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The _noochila-kalwet_ or herald went about the village crying _wikw-poosaltin_, which was intelligible to all. Who acts: kalwet _, wikw poosaltin. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 52

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The \_noochila-kalwet\_ or herald went about the village crying \_wikw-poosaltin\_, which was intelligible to all.

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**Who acts:** kalwet \_, wikw poosaltin · **What happens:** go, cry, be

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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 (kalwet \_, wikw poosaltin), 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:pg78673:20:52
# text = The _noochila-kalwet_ or herald went about the village crying _wikw-poosaltin_, which was intelligible to all.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	noochila	noochila	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	kalwet	kalwet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	herald	herald	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	csubj	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	wikw	wikw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	poosaltin	poosaltin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	intelligible	intelligible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the kalwet \_ or herald |  |  |  |  | about the village  wikw poosaltin | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about village=Location |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | wikw poosaltin |  |  |  |  | to all; intelligible *property* | 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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