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title: Then came the sound of some one walking heavily and hard, The old ma… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then came the sound of some one walking heavily and hard, The old man looked and saw a Thing of horror at his door, Large eyes, short arms, short body and long legs of insect shape. Who acts: one, old man. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14, with its depe
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 62

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Then came the sound of some one walking heavily and hard, The old man looked and saw a Thing of horror at his door, Large eyes, short arms, short body and long legs of insect shape.

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**Who acts:** one, old man · **What happens:** come, walk, look, see · **To what, where:** sound, Thing, door

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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 (one, old man), 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:pg78673:14:62
# text = Then came the sound of some one walking heavily and hard, The old man looked and saw a Thing of horror at his door, Large eyes, short arms, short body and long legs of insect shape.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	horror	horror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	Large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	insect	insect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | the sound of some one |  |  | then | Large eyes and short arms and short body and long legs of insect shape *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme |
| 2 | **walk** | gerund | some one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | heavily *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | past | the old man |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **see** | past |  | a Thing of horror |  | man's door |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |

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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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