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title: He never had seen the like, And at first was in a fright, But the ma… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: He never had seen the like, And at first was in a fright, But the man, putting down the house, Burst into a fit of laughter, And shook him by the hand, Seeming in faith to be A downright honest fellow. Who acts: game, man. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 140

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He never had seen the like, And at first was in a fright, But the man, putting down the house, Burst into a fit of laughter, And shook him by the hand, Seeming in faith to be A downright honest fellow.

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**Who acts:** game, man · **What happens:** not see, be, put down, shake, seem · **To what, where:** fright, house, fit, game, downright honest fellow

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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 (game, man), 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:pg78673:18:140
# text = He never had seen the like, And at first was in a fright, But the man, putting down the house, Burst into a fit of laughter, And shook him by the hand, Seeming in faith to be A downright honest fellow.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	obl	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Burst	Burst	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	vocative	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	fit	fit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	Seeming	seem	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
43	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	cop	_	_
44	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
45	downright	downright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
46	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | past · perfect | game |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer like=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  | a fright |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **put down** | gerund | the man | the house |  | a fit of laughter |  | Burst *vocative* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent house=Goal |
| 4 | **shake** | past | game *not said here* | game |  |  |  | by the hand | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme by hand=Trajectory |
| 5 | **seem** | gerund | game *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in faith | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in faith=Attribute |
| 6 | **is a** | to-infinitive | game *not said here* | a downright honest fellow |  |  |  |  | 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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