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title: Now he who had been despised For his deformity, Leanness, weakness,… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Now he who had been despised For his deformity, Leanness, weakness, and meanness, Became as grand and stately, As beautiful and graceful, As the fairest pine of the forest; There was in all the land No man so much admired, And his people were proud of him. Who acts: people. A sentence of «Kulóskap t
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 31

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Now he who had been despised For his deformity, Leanness, weakness, and meanness, Became as grand and stately, As beautiful and graceful, As the fairest pine of the forest; There was in all the land No man so much admired, And his people were proud of him.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** despise, become, admire, be · **To what, where:** Were, meanness

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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:pg78673:7:31
# text = Now he who had been despised For his deformity, Leanness, weakness, and meanness, Became as grand and stately, As beautiful and graceful, As the fairest pine of the forest; There was in all the land No man so much admired, And his people were proud of him.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	despised	despise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	advcl	_	_
7	For	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	deformity	deformity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Leanness	leanness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	weakness	weakness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	meanness	meanness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Became	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	stately	stately	ADV	RB	_	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	As	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	As	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	fairest	fair	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	amod	_	_
32	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
37	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	38	expl	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux:pass	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
40	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	42	det:predet	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
43	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	44	det	_	_
44	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
45	so	so	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	much	much	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	admired	admire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
49	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nsubj	_	_
52	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
53	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	conj	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	47	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **despise** | past · perfect · passive |  | Were |  |  | now | for Were's deformity and Leanness and weakness; who *nsubj:pass* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus for deformity=Attribute |
| 2 | **become** | participle · passive |  | meanness |  |  |  | as grand; as the fairest pine of the forest; beautiful *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 3 | **admire** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |
| 4 | **is** | past | Were's people |  |  |  |  | of Were; proud *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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