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title: THE DANCE OF OLD AGE — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: THE DANCE OF OLD AGE A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 117

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THE DANCE OF OLD AGE

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**What happens:** dance · **To what, where:** DANCE, OLD AGE

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg78673:15:122
# text = THE DANCE OF OLD AGE
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	DANCE	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	OLD	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	AGE	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **dance** |  |  | OLD AGE |  |  |  |  | nom dance «communication transitive»: of=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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