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title: But for my battle With Pûn the winter All life had perished: Never a… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: But for my battle With Pûn the winter All life had perished: Never again though, While life is in me Can I venture On such a struggle! Who acts: life, me, my. 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 24

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But for my battle With Pûn the winter All life had perished: Never again though, While life is in me Can I venture On such a struggle!

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**Who acts:** life, me, my · **What happens:** perish, be, venture, battle · **To what, where:** life, struggle

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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: who acts (life, me, my), 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:pg78673:17:24
# text = But for my battle With Pûn the winter All life had perished: Never again though, While life is in me Can I venture On such a struggle!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
5	With	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Pûn	Pûn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	perished	perish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
16	though	though	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
19	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	venture	venture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
26	On	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	29	det:predet	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	struggle	struggle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perish** | past · perfect · passive |  | all life |  |  | again; never | for my battle with Pûn | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | life |  |  |  |  | in me | tree rules |
| 3 | **venture** | can | me |  |  | such struggle |  | I *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **battle** |  | my |  |  |  |  | with Pûn | nom battle «act transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |

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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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