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title: Though what were life or death To any woman born, Likewise to many a… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Though what were life or death To any woman born, Likewise to many a man, Compared unto the joy Of learning that which is None of their business-- And tattling it abroad? Who acts: learning. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 105

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Though what were life or death To any woman born, Likewise to many a man, Compared unto the joy Of learning that which is None of their business-- And tattling it abroad?

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**Who acts:** learning · **What happens:** be, bear, compare, tattle, joy · **To what, where:** life, woman, death, learning

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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 (learning), 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:pg78673:18:105
# text = Though what were life or death To any woman born, Likewise to many a man, Compared unto the joy Of learning that which is None of their business-- And tattling it abroad?
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	To	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	Likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
19	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	learning	learning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
27	None	None	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
32	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	tattling	tattle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	conj	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | life or death |  |  |  | to any woman; what *nsubj*; death *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** | participle |  | any woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **compare** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | unto the joy of learning | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | learning |  |  |  |  | of life's business; None *nsubj*; life *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 5 | **tattle** | gerund |  | death |  |  |  | abroad *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **joy** |  |  | learning |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=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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