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title: He was in truth himself A Partridge who had been Wintering beneath t… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: He was in truth himself A Partridge who had been Wintering beneath the snow, And who in joy came forth To greet the pleasant spring. Who acts: man, Partridge, truth. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 156

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He was in truth himself A Partridge who had been Wintering beneath the snow, And who in joy came forth To greet the pleasant spring.

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**Who acts:** man, Partridge, truth · **What happens:** be, winter, come, greet · **To what, where:** truth, snow, joy

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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, Partridge, truth), 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:pg78673:18:156
# text = He was in truth himself A Partridge who had been Wintering beneath the snow, And who in joy came forth To greet the pleasant spring.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	nmod	_	_
6	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Partridge	Partridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux	_	_
11	Wintering	winter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
12	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	To	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	greet	greet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | man |  |  | truth |  | man *nmod* | tree rules |
| 2 | **winter** | past · perfect · progressive | a Partridge |  |  | the snow |  | truth *nsubj* | vn weekend-56 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath snow=Location |
| 3 | **come** | past | truth |  |  | joy |  | forth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in joy=Location |
| 4 | **greet** *speech: greet* | to-infinitive | truth *not said here* |  |  |  | spring |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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