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title: Six months he silent lay, Even as the bear or toad Lies quietly till… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Six months he silent lay, Even as the bear or toad Lies quietly till spring: Who acts: bear. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 31

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Six months he silent lay, Even as the bear or toad Lies quietly till spring:

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**Who acts:** bear · **What happens:** lie

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear), 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:pg78673:13:31
# text = Six months he silent lay, Even as the bear or toad Lies quietly till spring:
1	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lay	lay	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	Lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	till	till	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | the bear or toad |  |  |  | spring | lay, quietly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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