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title: “I have lived in this tree Since your great grandfather _Kʾchî Kʾmûs… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: “I have lived in this tree Since your great grandfather _Kʾchî Kʾmûsums_ Was born on that cedar From which you came Early this morning.” Who acts: Sexkâtû, you. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 65

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“I have lived in this tree Since your great grandfather \_Kʾchî Kʾmûsums\_ Was born on that cedar From which you came Early this morning.”

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**Who acts:** Sexkâtû, you · **What happens:** live, bear, come · **To what, where:** Kʾchî Kʾmûsums, tree, cedar

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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 (Sexkâtû, you), 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:pg78673:16:65
# text = “I have lived in this tree Since your great grandfather _Kʾchî Kʾmûsums_ Was born on that cedar From which you came Early this morning.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Kʾchî	Kʾchî	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Kʾmûsums	kʾmûsum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	_
16	Was	Be	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	cedar	cedar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	From	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	Early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Sexkâtû | Kʾchî Kʾmûsums |  | this tree | since your great grandfather |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location |
| 2 | **bear** *in a quote* | passive |  | Kʾchî Kʾmûsums *not said here* |  | that cedar |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | past | you |  |  | that cedar | morning | early *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial\_Location |

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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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