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title: For they had not gone far, When right before their path They saw an… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: For they had not gone far, When right before their path They saw an awful storm Coming to meet them. Who acts: dance, awful storm. 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 27

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For they had not gone far, When right before their path They saw an awful storm Coming to meet them.

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**Who acts:** dance, awful storm · **What happens:** not go, see, come, meet · **To what, where:** awful storm, dance

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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 (dance, awful storm), 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:pg78673:6:27
# text = For they had not gone far, When right before their path They saw an awful storm Coming to meet them.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	right	right	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	before	before	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
13	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	Coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** | past · perfect | dance |  |  |  |  | dance's path *conj*; far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | dance | a awful storm |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer storm=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come** | gerund | a awful storm *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **meet** | to-infinitive | a awful storm *not said here* | dance |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-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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