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title: [63] Long ago a fair woman named Nipon always lived near the sun. — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: [63] Long ago a fair woman named Nipon always lived near the sun. Who acts: fair woman. 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 29

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\[63\] Long ago a fair woman named Nipon always lived near the sun.

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**Who acts:** fair woman · **What happens:** name, live · **To what, where:** fair woman, 63, sun.

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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 (fair woman), 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:pg78673:17:29
# text = [63] Long ago a fair woman named Nipon always lived near the sun.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	63	63	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	Nipon	Nipon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	_
11	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	12	advmod	_	_
12	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	near	near	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | participle |  | a fair woman *not said here* |  |  |  | Nipon *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **live** | past | a fair woman | 63 |  | the sun. |  | ago, always *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near sun.=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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