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title: When he was sitting by the fire that night An evil bat of monstrous… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: When he was sitting by the fire that night An evil bat of monstrous size flew forth From underneath the shanty’s sloping roof. Who acts: nephew. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 39

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When he was sitting by the fire that night An evil bat of monstrous size flew forth From underneath the shanty’s sloping roof.

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**Who acts:** nephew · **What happens:** sit, fly, slope · **To what, where:** evil bat, roof

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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 (nephew), 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:pg78673:15:39
# text = When he was sitting by the fire that night An evil bat of monstrous size flew forth From underneath the shanty’s sloping roof.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	From	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	underneath	underneath	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	shanty	shanty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	sloping	slope	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	xcomp	_	_
24	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past · progressive | nephew | a evil bat of monstrous size |  |  | night | by the fire | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent bat=Theme by fire=Location |
| 2 | **fly** | past |  |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **slope** | gerund |  | roof |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location roof=Theme |

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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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