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title: For there the road led on Between the hideous heads Of two great ser… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: For there the road led on Between the hideous heads Of two great serpents, which Did almost touch their lips, And darted terrible tongues At those who went between. Who acts: two great serpents. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 58

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For there the road led on Between the hideous heads Of two great serpents, which Did almost touch their lips, And darted terrible tongues At those who went between.

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**Who acts:** two great serpents · **What happens:** lead, touch, dart, go · **To what, where:** road, hideous heads, lips, terrible tongues, those

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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 (two great serpents), 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:pg78673:6:58
# text = For there the road led on Between the hideous heads Of two great serpents, which Did almost touch their lips, And darted terrible tongues At those who went between.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	1	expl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
5	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	Between	between	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	hideous	hideous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	darted	dart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	At	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	nmod	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	between	between	ADP	IN	_	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | participle |  | the road *not said here* |  | the hideous heads of two great serpents |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on head=Destination |
| 2 | **touch** | past · do-support | two great serpents | serpents's lips |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lip=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **dart** | past |  | terrible tongues |  | those |  | for the road | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme at that=Trajectory |
| 4 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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