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title: Kukuʿskûûs, “snowy owl,” a P. word, undoubtedly of onomatapoetic ori… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Kukuʿskûûs, “snowy owl,” a P. word, undoubtedly of onomatapoetic origin. 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 138

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Kukuʿskûûs, “snowy owl,” a P. word, undoubtedly of onomatapoetic origin.

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**To what, where:** Kukuʿskûûs

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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: 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:pg78673:21:140
# text = Kukuʿskûûs, “snowy owl,” a P. word, undoubtedly of onomatapoetic origin.
1	Kukuʿskûûs	kukuʿskûû	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	P.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	undoubtedly	undoubtedly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	onomatapoetic	onomatapoetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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