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title: A terrible sight to Muttóntoe, Who leapt with a shriek through the s… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: A terrible sight to Muttóntoe, Who leapt with a shriek through the smoke-hole And never returned to that wigwam, Where the youth and his uncle, still living, Dwell happily in the dark forest. Who acts: terrible sight, youth. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, par
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 111

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A terrible sight to Muttóntoe, Who leapt with a shriek through the smoke-hole And never returned to that wigwam, Where the youth and his uncle, still living, Dwell happily in the dark forest.

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**Who acts:** terrible sight, youth · **What happens:** leapt, not return, live, dwell · **To what, where:** smoke hole, dark forest

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (terrible sight, youth), 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:pg78673:15:116
# text = A terrible sight to Muttóntoe, Who leapt with a shriek through the smoke-hole And never returned to that wigwam, Where the youth and his uncle, still living, Dwell happily in the dark forest.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Muttóntoe	Muttóntoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	leapt	leapt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shriek	shriek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
17	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
24	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	32	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	still	still	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	Dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	32	parataxis	_	_
35	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leapt** | present | a terrible sight to Muttóntoe |  |  | the smoke hole |  | with a shriek; Who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **return** | past | a terrible sight to Muttóntoe *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to that wigwam *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to wigwam=Result |
| 3 | **live** | gerund | the youth and sight's uncle |  |  |  | still |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **dwell** | infinitive |  |  |  | the dark forest |  | happily *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location |

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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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