--- title: Then, while they smoked and laughed, The man of the house beheld The… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics description: Then, while they smoked and laughed, The man of the house beheld The skin which the other bore Of Espuns, the Raccoon, And said with curious air: “_He kekw nit? Who acts: hands, man, skin, _. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hands, man, skin, \_), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78673:18:141 # text = Then, while they smoked and laughed, The man of the house beheld The skin which the other bore Of Espuns, the Raccoon, And said with curious air: “_He kekw nit? 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 while while SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 smoked smoke VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 beheld behold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 15 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 bore bore NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 21 Of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Espuns Espun PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Raccoon Raccoon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 And and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 curious curious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 : : PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 33 “ " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 _ _ NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 kekw kekw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 37 nit nit NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **smoke** | past | hands *= hand* | | | | then | | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **laugh** | past | hands *= hand* *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **behold** | past | the man of the house | the skin and the other bore | | | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skin=Stimulus | | 4 | **bore** | | the skin and the other bore | | | | | of Espuns the Raccoon | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | | | | | | with curious air | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with air=Manner | | 6 | **kekw** *in a quote* | past | \_ | nit | | | | man *nsubj* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/18/140/) - next →: [sentence 142](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/18/142/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/18/)