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title: Who fain would kill yourselves By your own folly, ye Mud-wasps who s… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Who fain would kill yourselves By your own folly, ye Mud-wasps who sting the hands Which fain would pluck you forth When drowning in the pool. Who acts: ye, Mud wasps, hands. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 112

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Who fain would kill yourselves By your own folly, ye Mud-wasps who sting the hands Which fain would pluck you forth When drowning in the pool.

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**Who acts:** ye, Mud wasps, hands · **What happens:** be, kill, wasp, sting, fain, pluck · **To what, where:** yourselves, you, pool

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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 (ye, Mud wasps, hands), 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:pg78673:18:112
# text = Who fain would kill yourselves By your own folly, ye Mud-wasps who sting the hands Which fain would pluck you forth When drowning in the pool.
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
2	fain	fain	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	By	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	folly	folly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
12	Mud	Mud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	wasps	wasp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sting	sting	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
19	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	fain	fain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	pluck	pluck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
26	drowning	drown	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **kill** | would |  | yourselves |  |  |  | by your own folly | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourselves=Theme |
| 3 | **wasp** |  | ye |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sting** | present | Mud wasps |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fain** | present | the hands |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **pluck** | would | the hands | you |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 7 | **drown** | gerund | the hands *not said here* |  |  | the pool |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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