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title: While the Master was pursuing Winpe the giant magician, One day at U… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: While the Master was pursuing Winpe the giant magician, One day at Uktukâmkw He saw afar in the distance Over the silent water, Far away in the sunset, Kwîmûŭk (the Loons) a-flying. Who acts: Master, Loons. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 7, with its depe
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 74

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While the Master was pursuing Winpe the giant magician, One day at Uktukâmkw He saw afar in the distance Over the silent water, Far away in the sunset, Kwîmûŭk (the Loons) a-flying.

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**Who acts:** Master, Loons · **What happens:** pursue, see, fly · **To what, where:** Winpe, One day

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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 (Master, Loons), 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:pg78673:7:74
# text = While the Master was pursuing Winpe the giant magician, One day at Uktukâmkw He saw afar in the distance Over the silent water, Far away in the sunset, Kwîmûŭk (the Loons) a-flying.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	pursuing	pursue	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	Winpe	Winpe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Uktukâmkw	Uktukâmkw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	afar	afar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	Over	over	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
27	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Kwîmûŭk	Kwîmûŭk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
33	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Loons	loon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pursue** | past · progressive | the Master | Winpe |  |  | day | the giant magician *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past | Master | One day at Uktukâmkw *not said here* |  |  |  | in the distance over the silent water; afar *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer day=Stimulus |
| 3 | **fly** | gerund | the Loons *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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