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title: There as if dying Lay Kʾmēwun The ancient Rain-mother, Weaker and ol… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: There as if dying Lay Kʾmēwun The ancient Rain-mother, Weaker and older, And worn and weary. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 20

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There as if dying Lay Kʾmēwun The ancient Rain-mother, Weaker and older, And worn and weary.

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**What happens:** die

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg78673:17:20
# text = There as if dying Lay Kʾmēwun The ancient Rain-mother, Weaker and older, And worn and weary.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	dying	die	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
5	Lay	Lay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Kʾmēwun	Kʾmēwun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	Rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Weaker	Weaker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	worn	worn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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