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title: There was a woman, long, long ago, She came out of a pit In which de… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a woman, long, long ago, She came out of a pit In which dead people were buried; She made her home in a tree; She was dressed in leaves; All long, long ago. Who acts: woman. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 1

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There was a woman, long, long ago, She came out of a pit In which dead people were buried; She made her home in a tree; She was dressed in leaves; All long, long ago.

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**Who acts:** woman · **What happens:** be, come out, bury, make, dress · **To what, where:** pit, dead people, home, tree, woman, leaves

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg78673:18:1
# text = There was a woman, long, long ago, She came out of a pit In which dead people were buried; She made her home in a tree; She was dressed in leaves; All long, long ago.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	In	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
19	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
38	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	advmod	_	_
39	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	42	advmod	_	_
42	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a woman |  |  | there |  | ago *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come out** | past | woman | a pit |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient pit=Result |
| 3 | **bury** | past · passive |  | dead people |  | a pit |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in which=Destination |
| 4 | **make** | past | woman | woman's home |  | a tree |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Product |
| 5 | **dress** | past · passive |  | woman |  | leaves |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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