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title: Even as he spoke The sweat dropped from him His face grew thin, His… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Even as he spoke The sweat dropped from him His face grew thin, His feet seemed smaller: “I feel them coming! Who acts: Fly, sweat, face, feet. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 3

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Even as he spoke The sweat dropped from him His face grew thin, His feet seemed smaller: “I feel them coming!

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**Who acts:** Fly, sweat, face, feet · **What happens:** speak, drop, grow, seem, feel, come · **To what, where:** feet · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fly, sweat, face, feet), 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:pg78673:17:3
# text = Even as he spoke The sweat dropped from him His face grew thin, His feet seemed smaller: “I feel them coming!
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sweat	sweat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Fly |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drop** | past | the sweat |  |  |  |  | from Fly | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from he=Trajectory |
| 3 | **grow** | past | Fly's face |  |  |  |  | thin *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **seem** | past | Fly's feet |  |  |  |  | small *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **feel** *in a quote* | present | Fly | feet *= foot* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **come** *in a quote* | gerund | feet *= foot* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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