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title: There are many nice women a-waiting, ’Tis evil living alone.” — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: There are many nice women a-waiting, ’Tis evil living alone.” Who acts: many nice women, Tis evil. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 46

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There are many nice women a-waiting, ’Tis evil living alone.”

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**Who acts:** many nice women, Tis evil · **What happens:** be, live

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many nice women, Tis evil), 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:pg78673:8:46
# text = There are many nice women a-waiting, ’Tis evil living alone.”
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	waiting	waiting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	’	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Tis	Tis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
13	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | many nice women  a waiting and Tis evil |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | gerund | Tis evil *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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