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title: So Malsum took his bow And, stealing through the woods Into his dark… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: So Malsum took his bow And, stealing through the woods Into his dark retreat, Shot Koʿkoʿkhas, the owl, And with his feathers struck Kulóskap while asleep. Who acts: Malsum, feathers. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 11

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So Malsum took his bow And, stealing through the woods Into his dark retreat, Shot Koʿkoʿkhas, the owl, And with his feathers struck Kulóskap while asleep.

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**Who acts:** Malsum, feathers · **What happens:** take, steal, strike · **To what, where:** bow, woods, Kulóskap

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Malsum, feathers), 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:pg78673:4:11
# text = So Malsum took his bow And, stealing through the woods Into his dark retreat, Shot Koʿkoʿkhas, the owl, And with his feathers struck Kulóskap while asleep.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Malsum	Malsum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	Into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	retreat	retreat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Shot	Shot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
18	Koʿkoʿkhas	Koʿkoʿkhas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Malsum | Malsum's bow |  |  |  | Shot *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme |
| 2 | **steal** | gerund | Malsum *not said here* |  |  | the woods |  | into Malsum's dark retreat | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Location |
| 3 | **strike** | past | Malsum's feathers | Kulóskap |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent kulóskap=Instrument |

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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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