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title: But when for a third time he Attempted another leap, His scalp-lock… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: But when for a third time he Attempted another leap, His scalp-lock caught on a pole, And there he hung a-dangling In the smoke which rose from below. Who acts: All, smoke. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 73

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But when for a third time he Attempted another leap, His scalp-lock caught on a pole, And there he hung a-dangling In the smoke which rose from below.

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**Who acts:** All, smoke · **What happens:** attempt, catch, hang, dangle, rise · **To what, where:** leap, scalp lock, pole, a, smoke

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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 (All, smoke), 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:pg78673:8:73
# text = But when for a third time he Attempted another leap, His scalp-lock caught on a pole, And there he hung a-dangling In the smoke which rose from below.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	Attempted	attempt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	leap	leap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	scalp	scalp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
16	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	dangling	dangle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
28	In	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	below	below	ADV	RB	_	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attempt** | past | All | another leap |  |  | time |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leap=Eventuality |
| 2 | **catch** | participle |  | All's scalp lock *not said here* |  | a pole |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hang** | past | All | a |  | there |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent a=Patient |
| 4 | **dangle** | gerund | All *not said here* |  |  | the smoke |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in smoke=Location |
| 5 | **rise** | past | the smoke |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from below=Initial\_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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