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title: Thus, he who would be tall Became exceeding great, For his head rose… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus, he who would be tall Became exceeding great, For his head rose o’er the wood Even as a giant pine; Nor was the top-feather forgotten; It waves in the wind to this hour. Who acts: man, head, Nor, pine. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 6, with its depe
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 94

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Thus, he who would be tall Became exceeding great, For his head rose o’er the wood Even as a giant pine; Nor was the top-feather forgotten; It waves in the wind to this hour.

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**Who acts:** man, head, Nor, pine · **What happens:** be, become, exceed, rise, forget, wave · **To what, where:** top feather

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, head, Nor, pine), 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:pg78673:6:94
# text = Thus, he who would be tall Became exceeding great, For his head rose o’er the wood Even as a giant pine; Nor was the top-feather forgotten; It waves in the wind to this hour.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	Became	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	exceeding	exceed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
16	o’er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	Nor	Nor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
31	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
33	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	waves	wave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	det	_	_
40	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | man |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; tall, thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **exceed** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | great *property* | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **rise** | past | man's head |  |  |  |  | o'er the wood; as a giant pine | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past | Nor | the top feather |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **forget** | participle |  | the top feather *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **wave** | present | pine |  |  |  | hour | in the wind | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in wind=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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