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title: Its sides were very steep, Ragged with rocks and holes And terrible… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Its sides were very steep, Ragged with rocks and holes And terrible with trees And rough with snow and ice. Who acts: sides. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 79

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Its sides were very steep, Ragged with rocks and holes And terrible with trees And rough with snow and ice.

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**Who acts:** sides · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sides), 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:pg78673:5:79
# text = Its sides were very steep, Ragged with rocks and holes And terrible with trees And rough with snow and ice.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Ragged	ragged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | hill's sides |  |  |  |  | steep *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | hill's sides *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with rocks and holes | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | hill's sides *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with trees | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | hill's sides *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with snow and ice | 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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