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title: “While the birch-tree Sends forth its leaves, While its trunk stands… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: “While the birch-tree Sends forth its leaves, While its trunk stands, I will dwell in its branches.” Who acts: trunk, tree Sends. 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 67

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“While the birch-tree Sends forth its leaves, While its trunk stands, I will dwell in its branches.”

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**Who acts:** trunk, tree Sends · **What happens:** stand, dwell · **To what, where:** branches

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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 (trunk, tree Sends), 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:pg78673:16:67
# text = “While the birch-tree Sends forth its leaves, While its trunk stands, I will dwell in its branches.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	birch	birch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Sends	send	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
8	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** *in a quote* | present | tree's trunk |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **dwell** *in a quote* | future | tree Sends  tree's leaves |  |  | tree's branches |  | I *nsubj* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in branch=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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