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title: Chibelaʿkwe, “night air sprite,” a monster consisting solely of head… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Chibelaʿkwe, “night air sprite,” a monster consisting solely of head and legs, without a body. Who acts: monster. 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 86

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Chibelaʿkwe, “night air sprite,” a monster consisting solely of head and legs, without a body.

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**Who acts:** monster · **What happens:** consist · **To what, where:** head, Chibelaʿkwe

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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 (monster), 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:pg78673:21:87
# text = Chibelaʿkwe, “night air sprite,” a monster consisting solely of head and legs, without a body.
1	Chibelaʿkwe	Chibelaʿkwe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	sprite	sprite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
11	consisting	consist	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	solely	solely	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	without	without	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consist** | gerund | a monster *not said here* | head and legs |  |  |  | without a body | 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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