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title: Wild with passion the witches Threw their fair arms around him And k… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Wild with passion the witches Threw their fair arms around him And kissed him as he responded To their ardent, fond embraces. Who acts: Wild witches, whirr, witches. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 39

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Wild with passion the witches Threw their fair arms around him And kissed him as he responded To their ardent, fond embraces.

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**Who acts:** Wild witches, whirr, witches · **What happens:** throw, kiss, respond, embrace · **To what, where:** fair arms, whirr

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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 (Wild witches, whirr, witches), 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:pg78673:5:39
# text = Wild with passion the witches Threw their fair arms around him And kissed him as he responded To their ardent, fond embraces.
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	Threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	around	around	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
12	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	responded	respond	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
18	To	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
20	ardent	ardent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	embraces	embrace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past | the Wild witches | witches's fair arms |  |  |  | around whirr | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arm=Theme around he=Destination |
| 2 | **kiss** | past | the Wild witches *not said here* | whirr |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **respond** *speech: other* | past | whirr |  |  |  |  | to witches's ardent fond embraces | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to embrace=Theme |
| 4 | **embrace** |  | witches *= witch* |  |  |  |  |  | nom embrace «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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