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title: A man was walking the woods When he heard afar a noise As of footste… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: A man was walking the woods When he heard afar a noise As of footsteps beating the ground. Who acts: man, footsteps. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 130

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A man was walking the woods When he heard afar a noise As of footsteps beating the ground.

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**Who acts:** man, footsteps · **What happens:** walk, hear, beat · **To what, where:** woods, afar noise, ground

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, footsteps), 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:pg78673:18:130
# text = A man was walking the woods When he heard afar a noise As of footsteps beating the ground.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	afar	afar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
16	beating	beat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past · progressive | a man | the woods |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Trajectory |
| 2 | **hear** | past | man | a afar noise |  |  |  | as footsteps | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus |
| 3 | **beat** | gerund | footsteps *not said here* | the ground |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ground=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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