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title: No sooner had the hapless wight these eye-rings in his hands, Than e… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: No sooner had the hapless wight these eye-rings in his hands, Than every kind of snake and beast that roam the northern woods Surrounded him, till, terrified, he rushed to his canoe. Who acts: kind, man. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14, with its depend
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 93

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No sooner had the hapless wight these eye-rings in his hands, Than every kind of snake and beast that roam the northern woods Surrounded him, till, terrified, he rushed to his canoe.

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**Who acts:** kind, man · **What happens:** have, roam, surround, rush · **To what, where:** hapless wight, northern woods, man, canoe

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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 (kind, 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:pg78673:14:93
# text = No sooner had the hapless wight these eye-rings in his hands, Than every kind of snake and beast that roam the northern woods Surrounded him, till, terrified, he rushed to his canoe.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	hapless	hapless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	wight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
8	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Than	Than	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	roam	roam	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	Surrounded	surround	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  | the hapless wight |  |  |  | Than *obl*; this eye rings *obj*; soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **roam** | present | every kind of snake and beast | the northern woods |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Trajectory |
| 3 | **surround** | past | every kind of snake and beast | man |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **rush** | past | man |  |  | man's canoe |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to canoe=Destination |

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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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