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title: The wind blew sharp and shrill, The snow began to fall, And Lox bega… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The wind blew sharp and shrill, The snow began to fall, And Lox began to think How very nice ’twould be, And pleasant, to be _warm_. Who acts: wind, snow, Lox. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 18

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The wind blew sharp and shrill, The snow began to fall, And Lox began to think How very nice ’twould be, And pleasant, to be \_warm\_.

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**Who acts:** wind, snow, Lox · **What happens:** blow, begin, fall, think, be, \_ · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, snow, Lox), 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:pg78673:19:18
# text = The wind blew sharp and shrill, The snow began to fall, And Lox began to think How very nice ’twould be, And pleasant, to be _warm_.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	shrill	shrill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	Lox	Lox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	ccomp	_	_
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	twould	twould	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	_	_	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | the wind |  |  |  |  | sharp *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the snow |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **fall** | to-infinitive | the snow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **begin** | past | Lox |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Lox *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | nice *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **\_** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | tree rules |

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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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