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title: Kulóskap discovered That the ball with which they played Was a hideo… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Kulóskap discovered That the ball with which they played Was a hideous human skull, A living thing which snapped at His heels. Who acts: Kulóskap, brothers, living thing. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 67

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Kulóskap discovered That the ball with which they played Was a hideous human skull, A living thing which snapped at His heels.

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**Who acts:** Kulóskap, brothers, living thing · **What happens:** discover, play, snap · **To what, where:** That, hideous human skull, Was, heels

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kulóskap, brothers, living thing), 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:pg78673:11:67
# text = Kulóskap discovered That the ball with which they played Was a hideous human skull, A living thing which snapped at His heels.
1	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	Was	Be	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	hideous	hideous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	skull	skull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	snapped	snap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discover** | past | Kulóskap | That |  |  |  | the ball *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | past | brothers *= brother* | a hideous human skull | Was |  |  | with the ball | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent be=Beneficiary skull=Theme |
| 3 | **snap** | past | a living thing |  |  | game's heels |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at heel=Location |

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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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