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title: His mouth with stringy lips Went well from ear to ear; His feet were… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: His mouth with stringy lips Went well from ear to ear; His feet were broad and flat, With toes immensely long-- He was marvellous to behold! Who acts: mouth, feet. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 73

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His mouth with stringy lips Went well from ear to ear; His feet were broad and flat, With toes immensely long-- He was marvellous to behold!

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**Who acts:** mouth, feet · **What happens:** go, be · **To what, where:** ear

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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 (mouth, feet), 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:pg78673:9:73
# text = His mouth with stringy lips Went well from ear to ear; His feet were broad and flat, With toes immensely long-- He was marvellous to behold!
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	stringy	stringy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	Went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	With	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
22	immensely	immensely	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	27	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | messenger's mouth with stringy lips |  |  | ear |  | to ear; well *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from ear=Initial\_Location to ear=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past | messenger's feet |  |  |  |  | toes *conj*; broad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | messenger's feet *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | mouth |  |  |  |  | marvellous *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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