--- title: So, in despair, Kulóskap gave it up, And Waʾsis, ever sitting on the… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics description: So, in despair, Kulóskap gave it up, And Waʾsis, ever sitting on the floor In the warm sunshine, went “Goo! goo!” and crowed; That was his infant crow of victory. Who acts: Kulóskap, That. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kulóskap, That), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78673:7:59 # text = So, in despair, Kulóskap gave it up, And Waʾsis, ever sitting on the floor In the warm sunshine, went “Goo! goo!” and crowed; That was his infant crow of victory. 1 So so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 despair despair NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 Kulóskap Kulóskap PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 And and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 Waʾsis Waʾsis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 15 advmod _ _ 15 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 advcl _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 In in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 sunshine sunshine NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 25 “ " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 Goo goo NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ! ! PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ 28 goo goo NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ! ! PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ” " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 crowed crow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 34 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 38 nsubj _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 infant infant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 crow crow NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 victory victory NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give up** | past | Kulóskap | despair | | despair | | Waʾsis *obl* | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source | | 2 | **sit** | gerund | Kulóskap *not said here* | | | the floor | ever | in the warm sunshine | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location | | 3 | **go** | past | Kulóskap *not said here* | Goo | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **crow** | past | Kulóskap *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | past | That | Kulóskap's infant crow | | | | of victory; Kulóskap *nmod:poss* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/7/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/7/60/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/7/)