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title: Then, quite beside himself with fear, he fled to thickest wood, And… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, quite beside himself with fear, he fled to thickest wood, And when at length all out of breath and weary with the chase He had to pause, he saw that still a host of snakes was there. Who acts: E’en, chase, host. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14, w
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 95

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Then, quite beside himself with fear, he fled to thickest wood, And when at length all out of breath and weary with the chase He had to pause, he saw that still a host of snakes was there.

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**Who acts:** E’en, chase, host · **What happens:** flee, have, pause, see, be · **To what, where:** thickest wood, chase, length

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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 (E’en, chase, host), 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:pg78673:14:95
# text = Then, quite beside himself with fear, he fled to thickest wood, And when at length all out of breath and weary with the chase He had to pause, he saw that still a host of snakes was there.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	nsubj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	thickest	thick	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
15	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	appos	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	pause	pause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
36	still	still	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
42	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee** | past | E’en *= e'en* |  |  | thickest wood |  | with fear | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **have** | past | E’en *= e'en* | the chase *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pause** | to-infinitive | the chase *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **see** | past | E’en *= e'en* |  |  | length |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | past | a host of snakes |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |

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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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