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title: Till suddenly he vomited a mass of serpent skins, And then at last c… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Till suddenly he vomited a mass of serpent skins, And then at last cast up the magic liver from his mouth. Who acts: boy. 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 74

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Till suddenly he vomited a mass of serpent skins, And then at last cast up the magic liver from his mouth.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** vomit, cast up · **To what, where:** mass, last cast magic liver

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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 (boy), 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:pg78673:14:74
# text = Till suddenly he vomited a mass of serpent skins, And then at last cast up the magic liver from his mouth.
1	Till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	vomited	vomit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
14	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
15	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	liver	liver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vomit** | past | boy | a mass of serpent skins |  | the last cast magic liver from boy's mouth |  | suddenly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mass=Theme |
| 2 | **cast up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: 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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