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title: Had the Master been As other men, the monster Would have bitten a fo… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Had the Master been As other men, the monster Would have bitten a foot away. Who acts: other men. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 68

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Had the Master been As other men, the monster Would have bitten a foot away.

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**Who acts:** other men · **What happens:** have, bite away · **To what, where:** Master, monster

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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 (other 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:pg78673:11:68
# text = Had the Master been As other men, the monster Would have bitten a foot away.
1	Had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	_
5	As	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	Would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	bitten	bite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  | the Master |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Patient |
| 2 | **bite away** | would · perfect · passive | other men *not said here* | the monster |  |  |  | a foot *obj*; away *property* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient foot=Result |

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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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