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title: Soon he who sought the girl Went whirling from his sled, And the two… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon he who sought the girl Went whirling from his sled, And the two sorcerers howled In triumph an hurrah! Who acts: Adown, girl, two sorcerers. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 2

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Soon he who sought the girl Went whirling from his sled, And the two sorcerers howled In triumph an hurrah!

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**Who acts:** Adown, girl, two sorcerers · **What happens:** seek, go, whirl, howl · **To what, where:** sled, hurrah, triumph

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Adown, girl, two sorcerers), 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:pg78673:6:2
# text = Soon he who sought the girl Went whirling from his sled, And the two sorcerers howled In triumph an hurrah!
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	Went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	whirling	whirl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	sled	sled	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	sorcerers	sorcerer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	howled	howl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	In	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	triumph	triumph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hurrah	hurrah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | past | Adown |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | the girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **whirl** | gerund | the girl *not said here* |  |  | Adown's sled |  |  | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from sled=Destination |
| 4 | **howl** | past | the two sorcerers | a hurrah |  | triumph |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hurrah=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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