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title: He did so--when all her wrinkles Vanished, and she became Very young… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: He did so--when all her wrinkles Vanished, and she became Very young and fair: The travellers had never In all their lives beheld A maid so beautiful: Her hair, once white and scanty, Now hung to her very feet, It was as dark and glossy As any blackbird’s breast; And, clad in fine array, She showed 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 9

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He did so--when all her wrinkles Vanished, and she became Very young and fair: The travellers had never In all their lives beheld A maid so beautiful: Her hair, once white and scanty, Now hung to her very feet, It was as dark and glossy As any blackbird’s breast; And, clad in fine array, She showed a tall lithe form, Graceful, in all points perfect.

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**Who acts:** Go, wrinkles, thing, travellers, lives, hair · **What happens:** do, vanish, become, have, behold, hang · **To what, where:** lives, maid, feet, thing, fine array, tall lithe form

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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 (Go, wrinkles, thing, travellers), 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:pg78673:7:9
# text = He did so--when all her wrinkles Vanished, and she became Very young and fair: The travellers had never In all their lives beheld A maid so beautiful: Her hair, once white and scanty, Now hung to her very feet, It was as dark and glossy As any blackbird’s breast; And, clad in fine array, She showed a tall lithe form, Graceful, in all points perfect.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	wrinkles	wrinkle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	Vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
14	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	travellers	traveller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
23	In	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
27	beheld	behold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
33	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	parataxis	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	scanty	scanty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	42	advmod	_	_
42	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	_
45	very	very	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
50	as	as	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	conj	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	glossy	glossy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	conj	_	_
54	As	as	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
55	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	56	det	_	_
56	blackbird	blackbird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	’s	's	PART	POS	_	56	case	_	_
58	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	62	punct	_	_
60	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
62	clad	clad	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
63	in	in	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	65	amod	_	_
65	array	array	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	68	punct	_	_
67	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	68	nsubj	_	_
68	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	62	conj	_	_
69	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	72	det	_	_
70	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	72	amod	_	_
71	lithe	lithe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	72	amod	_	_
72	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	74	punct	_	_
74	Graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	72	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	78	punct	_	_
76	in	in	ADP	IN	_	78	case	_	_
77	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	78	det	_	_
78	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	68	obl	_	_
79	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	78	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
80	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Go |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **vanish** | past | thing's wrinkles |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **become** | past | thing |  |  |  |  | young *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | past | the travellers | travellers's lives |  |  |  | thing's beautiful hair *obj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **behold** | participle | travellers's lives *not said here* | a maid |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maid=Stimulus |
| 6 | **hang** | past |  | feet | thing |  | now |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | past | hair |  |  |  |  | as any blackbird's breast; dark *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **be** |  | hair *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **clad** | past |  |  |  | fine array |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **show** | past | thing | a tall lithe form |  |  |  | in all points | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent form=Patient in point=Topic |

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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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