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title: For when our minds grow small And gossip is our god, We must diminis… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: For when our minds grow small And gossip is our god, We must diminish too. Who acts: minds, gossip, We, our. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 120

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For when our minds grow small And gossip is our god, We must diminish too.

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**Who acts:** minds, gossip, We, our · **What happens:** grow, be, diminish, mind · **To what, where:** god

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (minds, gossip, We, our), 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:pg78673:18:120
# text = For when our minds grow small And gossip is our god, We must diminish too.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
6	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	gossip	gossip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
13	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	diminish	diminish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | our minds |  |  |  |  | small *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | gossip | our god |  |  |  | our *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **diminish** | must | We |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **mind** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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