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title: And both the giants laughed; And the sound of their laugh was heard… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: And both the giants laughed; And the sound of their laugh was heard All over the land afar, The Wabanaki land. Who acts: giants, waves. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 30

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And both the giants laughed; And the sound of their laugh was heard All over the land afar, The Wabanaki land.

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**Who acts:** giants, waves · **What happens:** laugh, hear · **To what, where:** sound

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giants, waves), 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:pg78673:10:30
# text = And both the giants laughed; And the sound of their laugh was heard All over the land afar, The Wabanaki land.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
7	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
15	All	all	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	afar	afar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Wabanaki	Wabanaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past | both giants |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hear** | past · passive |  | the sound of waves's laugh |  |  |  | the land afar and the Wabanaki land *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **laugh** |  | waves *= wave* |  |  |  |  |  | nom laugh «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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