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title: Now on the next day at noon There was a glowing sunshine, And someth… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Now on the next day at noon There was a glowing sunshine, And something was seen basking Upon a great flat rock About a mile from the shore. Who acts: glowing sunshine, something. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 2

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Now on the next day at noon There was a glowing sunshine, And something was seen basking Upon a great flat rock About a mile from the shore.

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**Who acts:** glowing sunshine, something · **What happens:** be, glow, see, bask · **To what, where:** something

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glowing sunshine, something), 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:pg78673:9:2
# text = Now on the next day at noon There was a glowing sunshine, And something was seen basking Upon a great flat rock About a mile from the shore.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
18	basking	bask	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
19	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	About	about	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a glowing sunshine |  |  | there | now; day |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **glow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past · passive |  | something |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bask** | gerund | something *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon a great flat rock about a mile from the shore | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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