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title: And then he leapt upon the fiery coals And danced and danced, until… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: And then he leapt upon the fiery coals And danced and danced, until his feet did fry And sizzle hot like bacon in a pan. Who acts: wizard, feet. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 140

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And then he leapt upon the fiery coals And danced and danced, until his feet did fry And sizzle hot like bacon in a pan.

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**Who acts:** wizard, feet · **What happens:** leapt, dance, do · **To what, where:** fry, pan

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wizard, feet), 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:pg78673:14:140
# text = And then he leapt upon the fiery coals And danced and danced, until his feet did fry And sizzle hot like bacon in a pan.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	leapt	leapt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	fry	fry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	sizzle	sizzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	bacon	bacon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leapt** | past | wizard |  |  |  | then | upon the fiery coals | tree rules |
| 2 | **dance** | past | wizard *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dance** | past | wizard *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | past | wizard's feet | fry and sizzle |  | a pan |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fry=Eventuality |

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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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