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title: So piling up some sticks He bounded over them; They burst into a bla… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: So piling up some sticks He bounded over them; They burst into a blaze. Who acts: Lox, sticks. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 15

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So piling up some sticks He bounded over them; They burst into a blaze.

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**Who acts:** Lox, sticks · **What happens:** pile up, bound, burst · **To what, where:** sticks, blaze

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lox, sticks), 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:pg78673:19:15
# text = So piling up some sticks He bounded over them; They burst into a blaze.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	piling	pile	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	bounded	bound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	blaze	blaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pile up** | gerund | Lox *not said here* | some sticks |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme stick=Destination |
| 2 | **bound** | past | Lox |  |  |  |  | over sticks *= stick* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over they=Trajectory |
| 3 | **burst** | past | sticks *= stick* |  |  | a blaze |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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