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title: The weather grew ever warmer; The ice from the lake had melted, Gras… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The weather grew ever warmer; The ice from the lake had melted, Grass, flowers and leaves were growing. Who acts: weather, ice, flowers. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 123

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The weather grew ever warmer; The ice from the lake had melted, Grass, flowers and leaves were growing.

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**Who acts:** weather, ice, flowers · **What happens:** grow, melt · **To what, where:** Grass

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weather, ice, flowers), 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:pg78673:13:123
# text = The weather grew ever warmer; The ice from the lake had melted, Grass, flowers and leaves were growing.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	warmer	warm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
7	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	melted	melt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Grass	Grass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the weather |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **melt** | past · perfect | the ice from the lake | Grass |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **grow** | past · progressive | flowers and leaves |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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