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title: Then, all together left the happy town And struggling through the br… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, all together left the happy town And struggling through the brush and tangled wood Went straightway to that fearsome pool to save The damsels from a fate too dread to tell. Who acts: wood. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 31

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Then, all together left the happy town And struggling through the brush and tangled wood Went straightway to that fearsome pool to save The damsels from a fate too dread to tell.

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**Who acts:** wood · **What happens:** leave, struggle, tangle, go, save, tell · **To what, where:** happy town, brush, straightway, damsels, fate · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (wood), 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:pg78673:14:31
# text = Then, all together left the happy town And struggling through the brush and tangled wood Went straightway to that fearsome pool to save The damsels from a fate too dread to tell.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	struggling	struggle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	brush	brush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	tangled	tangle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	Went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
18	straightway	straightway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	fearsome	fearsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
25	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	damsels	damsel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	too	too	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	dread	dread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past |  | the happy town |  |  | then | together *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme |
| 2 | **struggle** | gerund |  |  |  | the brush |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tangle** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | past | wood | straightway |  |  |  | to that fearsome pool | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location straightway=Theme |
| 5 | **save** | to-infinitive | wood *not said here* | the damsels |  | a fate |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent damsel=Theme from fate=Source |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | wood *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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