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title: The thunder roared, and they answered With rattles and with war-crie… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The thunder roared, and they answered With rattles and with war-cries The Indians danced on. Who acts: thunder, Indians. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 98

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The thunder roared, and they answered With rattles and with war-cries The Indians danced on.

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**Who acts:** thunder, Indians · **What happens:** roar, answer, cry, dance · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (thunder, Indians), 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:pg78673:4:98
# text = The thunder roared, and they answered With rattles and with war-cries The Indians danced on.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	roared	roar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
8	With	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	rattles	rattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	cries	cry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
18	on	on	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roar** | past | the thunder |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Indians *= indian* |  |  |  |  | with rattles | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | Indians *= indian* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with war | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **dance** | past | the Indians |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «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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