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title: And at the word they went Flying at fearful speed Adown the mountain… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: And at the word they went Flying at fearful speed Adown the mountain side, And ever faster still As if to headlong death. Who acts: they. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 1

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And at the word they went Flying at fearful speed Adown the mountain side, And ever faster still As if to headlong death.

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**Who acts:** they · **What happens:** go, fly · **To what, where:** word, mountain side, fearful speed

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they), 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:pg78673:6:1
# text = And at the word they went Flying at fearful speed Adown the mountain side, And ever faster still As if to headlong death.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	Adown	Adown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	_
18	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	still	still	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
20	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	headlong	headlong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | they |  |  | the word |  | to headlong death | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fly** | gerund | they *not said here* | the mountain side |  | fearful speed |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=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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