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title: Then the Master, rising high As any giant pine, Caught the monster i… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Master, rising high As any giant pine, Caught the monster in his hand, And crumpled in his back With a mighty grip--and lo! Who acts: Master. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 98

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Then the Master, rising high As any giant pine, Caught the monster in his hand, And crumpled in his back With a mighty grip--and lo!

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**Who acts:** Master · **What happens:** rise, catch, crumple · **To what, where:** monster, hand, back

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Master), 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:pg78673:9:98
# text = Then the Master, rising high As any giant pine, Caught the monster in his hand, And crumpled in his back With a mighty grip--and lo!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	As	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
9	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	Caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	crumpled	crumple	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	With	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	grip	grip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | gerund | the Master *not said here* |  |  |  |  | high *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **catch** | past | the Master | the monster |  | Begone's hand |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monster=Theme |
| 3 | **crumple** | past | the Master *not said here* |  |  | Begone's back |  | with a mighty grip | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with grip=Instrument |

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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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