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title: Down he fell And in his falling A leg was broken: — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Down he fell And in his falling A leg was broken: Who acts: strength. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 6

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Down he fell And in his falling A leg was broken:

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**Who acts:** strength · **What happens:** fall, break · **To what, where:** leg

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strength), 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:pg78673:17:6
# text = Down he fell And in his falling A leg was broken:
1	Down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Masc|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
8	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | strength |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | gerund | strength |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **break** | past · passive |  | a leg |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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