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title: So over it they grew dainty And were very proud of it. — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: So over it they grew dainty And were very proud of it. Who acts: brook. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 67

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So over it they grew dainty And were very proud of it.

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**Who acts:** brook · **What happens:** grow, be · **To what, where:** dainty

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brook), 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:pg78673:9:67
# text = So over it they grew dainty And were very proud of it.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	over	over	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	dainty	dainty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | brook | dainty |  |  |  | women *= woman* *nsubj* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dainty=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | brook *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of brook; 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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