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title: So those who were beneath When it fell and struck the ground Were ev… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: So those who were beneath When it fell and struck the ground Were ever crushed to death. 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 60

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So those who were beneath When it fell and struck the ground Were ever crushed to death.

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**What happens:** be, strike, crush · **To what, where:** ground, 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: 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:pg78673:6:60
# text = So those who were beneath When it fell and struck the ground Were ever crushed to death.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
2	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	beneath	beneath	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	Were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
15	crushed	crush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; way *nsubj*; beneath, fall *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **strike** | past |  | the ground |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Patient |
| 3 | **crush** | past · passive |  | those |  |  | ever | to death *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to death=Result |

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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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