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title: Nikʾn, “O mother” (A.); dim. voc. of _nigawes_, “my mother.” — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Nikʾn, “O mother” (A.); dim. voc. of _nigawes_, “my mother.” A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 213

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Nikʾn, “O mother” (A.); dim. voc. of \_nigawes\_, “my mother.”

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**To what, where:** mother

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg78673:21:215
# text = Nikʾn, “O mother” (A.); dim. voc. of _nigawes_, “my mother.”
1	Nikʾn	Nikʾn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	A.	A.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	dim	dim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
13	voc	voc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	nigawes	nigawe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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