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title: But as in his delight He stretched out both his hands To grasp the t… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: But as in his delight He stretched out both his hands To grasp the tempting food, The bear-skin, melting fast, As water ran away-- For it was but the snow Which all the winter long Had gathered o’er his nest. Who acts: man, water, it. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Op
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 153

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But as in his delight He stretched out both his hands To grasp the tempting food, The bear-skin, melting fast, As water ran away-- For it was but the snow Which all the winter long Had gathered o’er his nest.

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**Who acts:** man, water, it · **What happens:** stretch out, grasp, melt, run away, be, gather · **To what, where:** hands, tempting food, winter

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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 (man, water, it), 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:pg78673:18:153
# text = But as in his delight He stretched out both his hands To grasp the tempting food, The bear-skin, melting fast, As water ran away-- For it was but the snow Which all the winter long Had gathered o’er his nest.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc:preconj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	To	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	grasp	grasp	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	tempting	tempting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	melting	melt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
24	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
29	away	away	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	For	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
37	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	obj	_	_
38	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	40	det:predet	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	43	advmod	_	_
42	Had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl:relcl	_	_
44	o’er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch out** | past | man | man's hands |  |  |  | as man's delight | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **grasp** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | the tempting food and the bear skin |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus |
| 3 | **melt** | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **run away** | past | water |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | for the snow | tree rules |
| 6 | **gather** | past · perfect · passive |  | all winter |  |  |  | o'er man's nest; the snow *obj*; long *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary which=Theme |
| 7 | **delight** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom delight «feeling 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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