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title: Then, holding him in scorn, Kulóskap the great lord Smote Winpe with… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, holding him in scorn, Kulóskap the great lord Smote Winpe with his bow As one might strike a dog; Down fell the sorcerer dead! Who acts: one. 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 9

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Then, holding him in scorn, Kulóskap the great lord Smote Winpe with his bow As one might strike a dog; Down fell the sorcerer dead!

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** hold, strike, fall · **To what, where:** Winpe, scorn, dog, sorcerer

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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 (one), 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:pg78673:11:9
# text = Then, holding him in scorn, Kulóskap the great lord Smote Winpe with his bow As one might strike a dog; Down fell the sorcerer dead!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	scorn	scorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
12	Smote	Smote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
13	Winpe	Winpe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
17	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nsubj	_	_
19	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	Down	down	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sorcerer	sorcerer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | gerund |  | Winpe |  | scorn | then | the great lord *obj* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme lord=Eventuality |
| 2 | **strike** | might | one | a dog |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent dog=Instrument |
| 3 | **fall** | past |  | the sorcerer |  |  |  | down *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient sorcerer=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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