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title: But ever the cold came on, And at midnight, when the fire And fuel w… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: But ever the cold came on, And at midnight, when the fire And fuel were all burnt out, The Marten froze to death, And then the grandmother. Who acts: cold, Marten. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 35

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But ever the cold came on, And at midnight, when the fire And fuel were all burnt out, The Marten froze to death, And then the grandmother.

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**Who acts:** cold, Marten · **What happens:** come on, burnt out, freeze · **To what, where:** grandmother, fire

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cold, Marten), 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:pg78673:10:35
# text = But ever the cold came on, And at midnight, when the fire And fuel were all burnt out, The Marten froze to death, And then the grandmother.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
18	all	all	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Marten	Marten	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	froze	freeze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come on** | past | the cold | the grandmother |  |  | ever; midnight |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **burnt out** | past · passive |  | the fire and fuel |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **freeze** | past | the Marten |  |  |  |  | to death | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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