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title: But Kulóskap the Great The Lord of Men and Beasts, Laughed as the th… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: But Kulóskap the Great The Lord of Men and Beasts, Laughed as the thunder roars. Who acts: thunder. 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 7

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But Kulóskap the Great The Lord of Men and Beasts, Laughed as the thunder roars.

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**Who acts:** thunder · **What happens:** laugh, roar · **To what, where:** Kulóskap

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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 (thunder), 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:pg78673:11:7
# text = But Kulóskap the Great The Lord of Men and Beasts, Laughed as the thunder roars.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Men	Men	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Beasts	Beast	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Laughed	laugh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	roars	roar	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | participle · passive |  | Kulóskap and Beasts |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **roar** | present | the thunder |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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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