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title: A. _kiwaʿkwa_, a mythical being, similar in form to a man, who inhab… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: A. _kiwaʿkwa_, a mythical being, similar in form to a man, who inhabited the snows of the far north. Who acts: man, far north. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 132

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A. \_kiwaʿkwa\_, a mythical being, similar in form to a man, who inhabited the snows of the far north.

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**Who acts:** man, far north · **What happens:** be, inhabit, snow · **To what, where:** form, snows, A. kiwaʿkwa

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, far north), 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:pg78673:21:134
# text = A. _kiwaʿkwa_, a mythical being, similar in form to a man, who inhabited the snows of the far north.
1	A.	A.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	kiwaʿkwa	kiwaʿkwa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	mythical	mythical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	snows	snow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  | form |  | to a man; similar *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **inhabit** | past | a man | the snows of the far north |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **snow** |  | the far north |  |  |  |  |  | nom snow «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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