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title: It was a great ravine Wherein two monstrous beasts Waylaid all trave… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a great ravine Wherein two monstrous beasts Waylaid all travellers And tore them limb from limb. Who acts: pass, two monstrous beasts. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 14

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It was a great ravine Wherein two monstrous beasts Waylaid all travellers And tore them limb from limb.

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**Who acts:** pass, two monstrous beasts · **What happens:** be, waylay, tore, limb · **To what, where:** great ravine, travellers, limb

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pass, two monstrous beasts), 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:pg78673:12:14
# text = It was a great ravine Wherein two monstrous beasts Waylaid all travellers And tore them limb from limb.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ravine	ravine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	Wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	Waylaid	waylay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	travellers	traveller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	tore	tore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	limb	limb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	limb	limb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | pass | a great ravine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **waylay** | past | two monstrous beasts | all travellers |  |  |  | wherein *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tore** | past | two monstrous beasts *not said here* | travellers *= traveller* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **limb** | infinitive | two monstrous beasts *not said here* |  |  | limb |  |  | tree rules |

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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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