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title: [62] Long ago, Lappilatwan, always good-natured, was cousin of all t… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: [62] Long ago, Lappilatwan, always good-natured, was cousin of all the birds. Who acts: 62. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 103

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\[62\] Long ago, Lappilatwan, always good-natured, was cousin of all the birds.

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**Who acts:** 62 · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Lappilatwan cousin

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (62), 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:pg78673:16:103
# text = [62] Long ago, Lappilatwan, always good-natured, was cousin of all the birds.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	62	62	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Lappilatwan	Lappilatwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	12	advmod	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	natured	natured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | 62 | Lappilatwan cousin |  |  | always | of all birds | 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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