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title: To the flash and crash of lightning Amid the rising waters The India… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: To the flash and crash of lightning Amid the rising waters The Indians danced on! Who acts: flash, Indians, lightning. 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 99

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To the flash and crash of lightning Amid the rising waters The Indians danced on!

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**Who acts:** flash, Indians, lightning · **What happens:** rise, water, dance on, crash

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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 (flash, Indians, lightning), 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:pg78673:4:99
# text = To the flash and crash of lightning Amid the rising waters The Indians danced on!
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	flash	flash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	crash	crash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	Amid	amid	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
11	waters	water	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | gerund | the flash and crash of lightning *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **water** | present | the flash and crash of lightning |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **dance on** | past | the Indians |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **crash** |  | lightning |  |  |  |  |  | nom crash «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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