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title: Then Kitpûsâgunâû Fastened it to his knee Where it dangled like a mo… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Kitpûsâgunâû Fastened it to his knee Where it dangled like a mouse. Who acts: Kitpûsâgunâû, beaver. 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 46

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Then Kitpûsâgunâû Fastened it to his knee Where it dangled like a mouse.

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**Who acts:** Kitpûsâgunâû, beaver · **What happens:** fasten, dangle · **To what, where:** beaver

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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 (Kitpûsâgunâû, beaver), 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:pg78673:10:46
# text = Then Kitpûsâgunâû Fastened it to his knee Where it dangled like a mouse.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Kitpûsâgunâû	Kitpûsâgunâû	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	Fastened	fasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	dangled	dangle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fasten** | past | Kitpûsâgunâû | beaver |  |  | then | to Kitpûsâgunâû's knee | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient to knee=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **dangle** | past | beaver |  |  |  |  | like a mouse | 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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