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title: Then, grasping in his hand, The legbone of a moose, He flung it stra… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, grasping in his hand, The legbone of a moose, He flung it straight and far To where the muskrat swam And struck him on the head. Who acts: wizard, muskrat. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 165

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Then, grasping in his hand, The legbone of a moose, He flung it straight and far To where the muskrat swam And struck him on the head.

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**Who acts:** wizard, muskrat · **What happens:** grasp, fling, swim, strike · **To what, where:** legbone, hand, plash, wizard

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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, muskrat), 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:pg78673:14:165
# text = Then, grasping in his hand, The legbone of a moose, He flung it straight and far To where the muskrat swam And struck him on the head.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	grasping	grasp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	legbone	legbone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	moose	moose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
20	To	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	muskrat	muskrat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
25	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grasp** | gerund |  | the legbone of a moose |  | wizard's hand | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **fling** | past | wizard | plash |  |  |  | far *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **swim** | past | the muskrat |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **strike** | past | wizard *not said here* | wizard |  |  |  | on the head | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument on head=Patient |

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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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