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title: Ere long the Sea Duck rose Again to get his breath, But long the Ind… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Ere long the Sea Duck rose Again to get his breath, But long the Indians Waited and watched until They saw the Loon again. Who acts: Sea Duck, Indians. 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 20

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Ere long the Sea Duck rose Again to get his breath, But long the Indians Waited and watched until They saw the Loon again.

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**Who acts:** Sea Duck, Indians · **What happens:** rise, get, long, wait, watch, see · **To what, where:** breath, Loon

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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 (Sea Duck, Indians), 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:pg78673:6:20
# text = Ere long the Sea Duck rose Again to get his breath, But long the Indians Waited and watched until They saw the Loon again.
1	Ere	ere	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Duck	Duck	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	long	long	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	Waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
20	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Loon	Loon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the Sea Duck |  |  |  | again | long *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | the Sea Duck *not said here* | Duck's breath |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer breath=Stimulus |
| 3 | **long** | past | the Sea Duck *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **wait** | past | the Indians |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **watch** | past | the Indians *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **see** | past | Indians *= indian* | the Loon |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loon=Stimulus |

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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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