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title: There was a whirr as of wings And they came flying forth By hundreds… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a whirr as of wings And they came flying forth By hundreds round his head Like beautiful white doves Swarming all about-- Wonderful lovely girls With large black burning eyes, And torrents of flowing hair. Who acts: whirr, wings, beautiful white doves, torrents. A sentence of «Kulóskap the
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 38

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There was a whirr as of wings And they came flying forth By hundreds round his head Like beautiful white doves Swarming all about-- Wonderful lovely girls With large black burning eyes, And torrents of flowing hair.

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**Who acts:** whirr, wings, beautiful white doves, torrents · **What happens:** be, come, fly, swarm, flow · **To what, where:** hair

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whirr, wings, beautiful white doves, torrents), 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:pg78673:5:38
# text = There was a whirr as of wings And they came flying forth By hundreds round his head Like beautiful white doves Swarming all about-- Wonderful lovely girls With large black burning eyes, And torrents of flowing hair.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	whirr	whirr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	7	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	By	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	round	round	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
22	Swarming	swarm	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	all	all	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	about	about	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	Wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
29	With	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
31	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	torrents	torrent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
37	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
38	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	acl	_	_
39	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a whirr |  |  | there |  | as wings; torrents *nsubj* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | wings *= wing* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fly** | gerund | wings *= wing* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by hundreds; round whirr's head; like beautiful white doves and Wonderful lovely girls with large black burning eyes; forth *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by hundred=Location |
| 4 | **swarm** | gerund | beautiful white doves and Wonderful lovely girls with large black burning eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **flow** | gerund | torrents *not said here* | hair |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hair=Theme |

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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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