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title: First born were the Miʿkumwessuk The fairies of the forest, The Wʾnâ… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: First born were the Miʿkumwessuk The fairies of the forest, The Wʾnâgʾmeswuk, elves, The little men, dwellers in rocks. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 38

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First born were the Miʿkumwessuk The fairies of the forest, The Wʾnâgʾmeswuk, elves, The little men, dwellers in rocks.

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**What happens:** bear, be · **To what, where:** born Miʿkumwessuk

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 4. 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:pg78673:4:38
# text = First born were the Miʿkumwessuk The fairies of the forest, The Wʾnâgʾmeswuk, elves, The little men, dwellers in rocks.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	_
2	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Miʿkumwessuk	Miʿkumwessuk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Wʾnâgʾmeswuk	Wʾnâgʾmeswuk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	elves	elf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	dwellers	dweller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the born Miʿkumwessuk |  |  |  | the fairies of the forest *nmod*; the Wʾnâgʾmeswuk and elves and dwellers in rocks *appos* | tree rules |

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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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