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title: And when they came to the rock Just hanging over the water, Whom sho… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: And when they came to the rock Just hanging over the water, Whom should they see but Mikchik A-dozing in the sunlight! Who acts: men. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 4

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And when they came to the rock Just hanging over the water, Whom should they see but Mikchik A-dozing in the sunlight!

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** come, hang, see · **To what, where:** rock, water, dozing, sunlight

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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 (men), 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:pg78673:9:4
# text = And when they came to the rock Just hanging over the water, Whom should they see but Mikchik A-dozing in the sunlight!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	advcl	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	Whom	whom	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Mikchik	Mikchik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	dozing	dozing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | men *= man* |  |  | the rock |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to rock=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **hang** | gerund | men *= man* *not said here* |  |  | the water |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over water=Location |
| 3 | **see** | should |  | a dozing |  | the sunlight |  | Whom *nsubj*; men *= man* *nsubj*; Mikchik *conj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dozing=Stimulus |

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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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