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title: “Lo, I must perish If this lasts longer, Set Nipon free! — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: “Lo, I must perish If this lasts longer, Set Nipon free! Who acts: Fly, this. 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 7

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“Lo, I must perish If this lasts longer, Set Nipon free!

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**Who acts:** Fly, this · **What happens:** perish, last · **To what, where:** Set

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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 (Fly, this), 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:pg78673:17:7
# text = “Lo, I must perish If this lasts longer, Set Nipon free!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Set	Set	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	Nipon	Nipon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perish** *in a quote* | must | Fly | Set |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **last** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | this |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

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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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