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title: And Waʾsis looked at him admiringly And seemed to find it interestin… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: And Waʾsis looked at him admiringly And seemed to find it interesting, quite; Yet, peacefully as ever kept his place. Who acts: Waʾsis. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 58

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And Waʾsis looked at him admiringly And seemed to find it interesting, quite; Yet, peacefully as ever kept his place.

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**Who acts:** Waʾsis · **What happens:** look, seem, find, keep · **To what, where:** dead, place

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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 (Waʾsis), 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:pg78673:7:58
# text = And Waʾsis looked at him admiringly And seemed to find it interesting, quite; Yet, peacefully as ever kept his place.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Waʾsis	Waʾsis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	admiringly	admiringly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
16	Yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	advmod	_	_
21	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Waʾsis |  |  |  | yet | at Baby; admiringly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | past | Waʾsis *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | Waʾsis *not said here* | dead |  |  |  | interesting *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 4 | **keep** | past |  | Baby's place |  |  | ever | peacefully *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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