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title: Down fell the Red Bird, sorely wounded, And proud of his prey the bo… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Down fell the Red Bird, sorely wounded, And proud of his prey the boy ran homeward. Who acts: boy. 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 68

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Down fell the Red Bird, sorely wounded, And proud of his prey the boy ran homeward.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** fall, run · **To what, where:** Red Bird, homeward

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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 (boy), 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:pg78673:17:68
# text = Down fell the Red Bird, sorely wounded, And proud of his prey the boy ran homeward.
1	Down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
5	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	sorely	sorely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	wounded	wounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	homeward	homeward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past |  | the Red Bird |  |  |  | down *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient bird=Result |
| 2 | **run** | past | the boy | homeward |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme homeward=Trajectory |

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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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