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title: Then the elder of the pilgrims, A reckless jolly fellow, Thinking it… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the elder of the pilgrims, A reckless jolly fellow, Thinking it was a joke And that he was mocked for sport, Cut off nearly all the meat, And ate it. Who acts: reckless jolly fellow, isle, joke. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 5, with its dependency 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 54

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Then the elder of the pilgrims, A reckless jolly fellow, Thinking it was a joke And that he was mocked for sport, Cut off nearly all the meat, And ate it.

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**Who acts:** reckless jolly fellow, isle, joke · **What happens:** think, be, mock, cut off, eat · **To what, where:** joke, Bear, meat, isle, elder · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reckless jolly fellow, isle, joke), 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:pg78673:5:54
# text = Then the elder of the pilgrims, A reckless jolly fellow, Thinking it was a joke And that he was mocked for sport, Cut off nearly all the meat, And ate it.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pilgrims	pilgrim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	reckless	reckless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	jolly	jolly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Thinking	think	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	_
18	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	mocked	mock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
27	off	off	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | a reckless jolly fellow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | isle | a joke |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mock** | past · passive |  | Bear |  |  |  | for sport | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for sport=Attribute |
| 4 | **cut off** | participle | a joke *not said here* | all meat |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **eat** | past |  | isle |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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