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title: She could be fair when she would, Fair as a rosy sky With stars stil… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: She could be fair when she would, Fair as a rosy sky With stars still beaming in it In very early dawn; Or terrible as a storm, When it howls among the mountains, And lightens in the midnight. Who acts: Kulóskap, storm. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 11,
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 109

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She could be fair when she would, Fair as a rosy sky With stars still beaming in it In very early dawn; Or terrible as a storm, When it howls among the mountains, And lightens in the midnight.

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**Who acts:** Kulóskap, storm · **What happens:** be, beam, howl, lighten · **To what, where:** sky, mountains

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kulóskap, storm), 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:pg78673:11:109
# text = She could be fair when she would, Fair as a rosy sky With stars still beaming in it In very early dawn; Or terrible as a storm, When it howls among the mountains, And lightens in the midnight.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	rosy	rosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	With	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	beaming	beam	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	In	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	howls	howl	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
34	among	among	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	lightens	lighten	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | could | Kulóskap |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **beam** | gerund | Kulóskap *not said here* |  |  | sky | still; dawn |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location |
| 3 | **be** |  | Kulóskap *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a storm | tree rules |
| 4 | **howl** | present | storm |  |  | the mountains |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among mountain=Location |
| 5 | **lighten** | present | storm *not said here* |  |  |  | midnight |  | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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