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title: But in truth he did very little, For he had not gone far forward Ere… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: But in truth he did very little, For he had not gone far forward Ere he tripped and fell rolling over. Who acts: Turtle. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 65

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But in truth he did very little, For he had not gone far forward Ere he tripped and fell rolling over.

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**Who acts:** Turtle · **What happens:** do, not go, trip, fall, roll over · **To what, where:** little, truth, Ere

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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 (Turtle), 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:pg78673:8:65
# text = But in truth he did very little, For he had not gone far forward Ere he tripped and fell rolling over.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
14	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
15	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	Ere	Ere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	tripped	trip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
21	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
22	over	over	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Turtle | little |  | truth |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **go** | past · perfect | Turtle | Ere |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **trip** | past | Turtle |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fall** | past | Turtle *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **roll over** | gerund | Turtle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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