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title: But Sable, when the stick Was burning, or red hot, Thrust it into hi… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: But Sable, when the stick Was burning, or red hot, Thrust it into his eyes; (It had a forked end) Utterly blinding him; Then headlong rushed away. Who acts: stick, Sable, rod. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 28

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But Sable, when the stick Was burning, or red hot, Thrust it into his eyes; (It had a forked end) Utterly blinding him; Then headlong rushed away.

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**Who acts:** stick, Sable, rod · **What happens:** burn, thrust, have, fork, blind, rush away · **To what, where:** rod, eyes, forked end, stick

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stick, Sable, rod), 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:pg78673:8:28
# text = But Sable, when the stick Was burning, or red hot, Thrust it into his eyes; (It had a forked end) Utterly blinding him; Then headlong rushed away.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	Sable	Sable	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	_
12	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
14	Thrust	thrust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	forked	fork	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
27	Utterly	utterly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	blinding	blind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
31	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
32	headlong	headlong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	_
33	rushed	rush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
34	away	away	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | past · progressive | the stick |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **thrust** | infinitive | Sable | rod |  | stick's eyes |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | rod | a forked end |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient |
| 4 | **fork** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **blind** | gerund | rod *not said here* | stick |  |  |  | utterly *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **rush away** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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