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title: As she went flying over the forest, Leaving death behind, with love… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: As she went flying over the forest, Leaving death behind, with love before her, She had never been half so happy. Who acts: Heard. 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 97

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As she went flying over the forest, Leaving death behind, with love before her, She had never been half so happy.

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**Who acts:** Heard · **What happens:** go, fly, leave, not be · **To what, where:** forest, death, half

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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 (Heard), 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:pg78673:17:97
# text = As she went flying over the forest, Leaving death behind, with love before her, She had never been half so happy.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
4	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	conj	_	_
10	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
18	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	cop	_	_
22	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	0	root	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Heard |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fly** | gerund | Heard *not said here* |  |  | the forest |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over forest=Location |
| 3 | **leave** | gerund | Heard *not said here* | death |  |  | before Heard | with love; behind *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent death=Theme before she=Location |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | past · perfect | Heard | half |  |  |  |  | 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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