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title: The _Kiwaʿkw_, however, as remarked above, was often an evil being. — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The _Kiwaʿkw_, however, as remarked above, was often an evil being. Who acts: Kiwaʿkw. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 63

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The \_Kiwaʿkw\_, however, as remarked above, was often an evil being.

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**Who acts:** Kiwaʿkw · **What happens:** remark, be · **To what, where:** Kiwaʿkw, evil

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kiwaʿkw), 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:pg78673:3:63
# text = The _Kiwaʿkw_, however, as remarked above, was often an evil being.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Kiwaʿkw	Kiwaʿkw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	however	however	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	remarked	remark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	above	above	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	often	often	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remark** *speech: assert* | participle |  | the Kiwaʿkw *not said here* |  |  |  | above, however *property* | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the Kiwaʿkw | a evil |  |  |  | often *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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