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title: At every step his foot Met with the growing grass, Warm breezes gree… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: At every step his foot Met with the growing grass, Warm breezes greeted him, And many a forest flower Rose up and talked in song. Who acts: foot, Warm breezes, many. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 34

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At every step his foot Met with the growing grass, Warm breezes greeted him, And many a forest flower Rose up and talked in song.

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**Who acts:** foot, Warm breezes, many · **What happens:** meet, grow, greet, rise up, talk · **To what, where:** Homeward, song

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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 (foot, Warm breezes, many), 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:pg78673:13:34
# text = At every step his foot Met with the growing grass, Warm breezes greeted him, And many a forest flower Rose up and talked in song.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	Met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	Warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	breezes	breeze	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	greeted	greet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	nsubj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	Rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	talked	talk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | participle | Homeward's foot |  |  |  |  | at every step; with the growing grass | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with grass=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **greet** *speech: greet* | past | Warm breezes |  | Homeward |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **rise up** | past | many |  |  |  |  | a forest flower *nsubj* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **talk** | participle | many *not said here* |  |  | song |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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