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title: So on another day When both together went A-hunting in the woods Kul… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: So on another day When both together went A-hunting in the woods Kulóskap laid him down To sleep upon the leaves Where all was very still; Then Malsum, ever bent On evil and on death, With a great pine-tree root Smote with his giant strength His brother on the head. Who acts: both, Kulóskap, all. A 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 16

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So on another day When both together went A-hunting in the woods Kulóskap laid him down To sleep upon the leaves Where all was very still; Then Malsum, ever bent On evil and on death, With a great pine-tree root Smote with his giant strength His brother on the head.

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**Who acts:** both, Kulóskap, all · **What happens:** go, lay down, sleep, be, bend · **To what, where:** hunting, woods, Tis, Malsum, evil

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (both, Kulóskap, all), 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:pg78673:4:16
# text = So on another day When both together went A-hunting in the woods Kulóskap laid him down To sleep upon the leaves Where all was very still; Then Malsum, ever bent On evil and on death, With a great pine-tree root Smote with his giant strength His brother on the head.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	nsubj	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
15	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
19	To	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
30	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
31	Malsum	Malsum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	34	advmod	_	_
34	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
35	On	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
41	With	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
43	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
44	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
48	Smote	Smote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	appos	_	_
49	with	with	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
51	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
53	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
55	on	on	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | both | a hunting |  | the woods | day | Malsum and death *obl*; together *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hunting=Theme |
| 2 | **lay down** | past | Kulóskap | Tis |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Result |
| 3 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | Kulóskap *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon the leaves | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | all |  |  |  |  | still *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **bend** | participle |  | Malsum and death *not said here* |  | evil | ever |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on evil=Location |

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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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