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title: Should thy feet fall In the Laʿtogwesnuk Thy beauty will leave thee,… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Should thy feet fall In the Laʿtogwesnuk Thy beauty will leave thee, Thy green dress fade, Hair turning gray Thy strength become weakness.” Who acts: feet, beauty, Hair, green dress fade. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and th
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 115

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Should thy feet fall In the Laʿtogwesnuk Thy beauty will leave thee, Thy green dress fade, Hair turning gray Thy strength become weakness.”

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**Who acts:** feet, beauty, Hair, green dress fade, Thy · **What happens:** fall, leave, turn, become, fade · **To what, where:** Laʿtogwesnuk, thee, gray, weakness

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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 (feet, beauty, Hair, green dress fade), 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:pg78673:16:115
# text = Should thy feet fall In the Laʿtogwesnuk Thy beauty will leave thee, Thy green dress fade, Hair turning gray Thy strength become weakness.”
1	Should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	In	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Laʿtogwesnuk	Laʿtogwesnuk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nmod:poss	_	_
15	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	fade	fade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	gray	gray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	weakness	weakness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | should | thy feet |  |  | the Laʿtogwesnuk |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in laʿtogwesnuk=Location |
| 2 | **leave** | future | Thy beauty | thee |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 3 | **turn** | gerund | Hair *not said here* | gray |  |  |  | Thy strength *obj* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent gray=Theme strength=Result |
| 4 | **become** | present | Thy green dress fade and Hair | weakness |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **fade** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom fade «act intransitive»: poss=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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