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title: Thus it was Kulóskap the Great Made man: He took his arrows And shot… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus it was Kulóskap the Great Made man: He took his arrows And shot at a tree--the ash, Known as the basket-tree. Who acts: Miʿkumwessuk, man. 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 39

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Thus it was Kulóskap the Great Made man: He took his arrows And shot at a tree--the ash, Known as the basket-tree.

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**Who acts:** Miʿkumwessuk, man · **What happens:** be, take, shoot, know · **To what, where:** Kulóskap, arrows, tree, ash

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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 (Miʿkumwessuk, man), 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:pg78673:4:39
# text = Thus it was Kulóskap the Great Made man: He took his arrows And shot at a tree--the ash, Known as the basket-tree.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
7	Made	Made	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	ash	ash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Miʿkumwessuk | Kulóskap |  |  |  | the Made man *appos*; thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past | man | man's arrows |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme |
| 3 | **shoot** | past | man *not said here* |  |  | a tree and the ash |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at tree=Destination |
| 4 | **know** | participle |  | the ash *not said here* |  |  |  | as the basket tree | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as tree=Attribute |

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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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