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title: She had a grandmother, Kʾmēwun, the rain, Who dwelt far away. — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: She had a grandmother, Kʾmēwun, the rain, Who dwelt far away. Who acts: woman, rain. 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 113

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She had a grandmother, Kʾmēwun, the rain, Who dwelt far away.

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**Who acts:** woman, rain · **What happens:** have, dwell · **To what, where:** grandmother

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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 (woman, rain), 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:pg78673:16:113
# text = She had a grandmother, Kʾmēwun, the rain, Who dwelt far away.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Kʾmēwun	Kʾmēwun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | woman | a grandmother |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Patient |
| 2 | **dwell** | past | the rain |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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