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title: And looking from this afar, All seemed familiar to them: The plains… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: And looking from this afar, All seemed familiar to them: The plains and hills and river, And wood and dale and valley-- It was their native land! Who acts: plain. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 24

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And looking from this afar, All seemed familiar to them: The plains and hills and river, And wood and dale and valley-- It was their native land!

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**Who acts:** plain · **What happens:** look, seem, be · **To what, where:** plains, native land

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plain), 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:pg78673:7:24
# text = And looking from this afar, All seemed familiar to them: The plains and hills and river, And wood and dale and valley-- It was their native land!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	afar	afar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
8	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	dale	dale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | from this afar | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from afar=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | past |  | the plains and hills and river and wood and dale and valley and pilgrims's native land |  |  |  | familiar *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | plain | pilgrims's native land |  |  |  | pilgrims *= pilgrim* *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

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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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