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title: At his approach the leaves and shrubs all rustled as from wind. — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: At his approach the leaves and shrubs all rustled as from wind. Who acts: wizard. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 67

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At his approach the leaves and shrubs all rustled as from wind.

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**Who acts:** wizard · **What happens:** rustle, approach · **To what, where:** approach

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wizard), 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:pg78673:14:67
# text = At his approach the leaves and shrubs all rustled as from wind.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	approach	approach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
7	shrubs	shrub	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	rustled	rustle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rustle** | present |  |  |  | wizard's approach |  | as wind; all *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at approach=Location |
| 2 | **approach** |  | wizard |  |  |  |  |  | nom approach «act intransitive»: poss=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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