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title: The Moose was standing by, Intently looking on, With great, soft, st… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The Moose was standing by, Intently looking on, With great, soft, staring eyes, Attending to it all With deepest interest. Who acts: Moose. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 118

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The Moose was standing by, Intently looking on, With great, soft, staring eyes, Attending to it all With deepest interest.

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**Who acts:** Moose · **What happens:** stand by, look on, stare, attend · **To what, where:** all, Moose

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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 (Moose), 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:pg78673:4:118
# text = The Moose was standing by, Intently looking on, With great, soft, staring eyes, Attending to it all With deepest interest.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Moose	moose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Intently	intently	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	With	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	staring	stare	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Attending	attend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	obj	_	_
23	With	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	deepest	deep	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
25	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand by** | past · progressive | the Moose |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look on** | gerund | the Moose *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with great soft staring eyes; intently *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **stare** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **attend** | gerund | the Moose *not said here* | all | Moose |  |  | with deepest interest | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme all=Goal |

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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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