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title: It will be sore for you, A game of life and death, For all the young… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: It will be sore for you, A game of life and death, For all the young men who live here Are your enemies, and will seek To slay you in the rush By crowding close together, And trampling you under foot. Who acts: It, young men, you. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Openin
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 70

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It will be sore for you, A game of life and death, For all the young men who live here Are your enemies, and will seek To slay you in the rush By crowding close together, And trampling you under foot.

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**Who acts:** It, young men, you · **What happens:** be, live, seek, slay, crowd, trampling · **To what, where:** enemies, you, rush, foot

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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 (It, young men, you), 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:pg78673:8:70
# text = It will be sore for you, A game of life and death, For all the young men who live here Are your enemies, and will seek To slay you in the rush By crowding close together, And trampling you under foot.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	For	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
23	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
30	To	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	rush	rush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
37	crowding	crowd	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
38	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	37	advmod	_	_
39	together	together	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	trampling	trampling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
43	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
44	under	under	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | It |  |  |  |  | for you; a game of life and death *conj*; sore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | present | all young men |  |  | here |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | all young men | your enemies |  |  |  | your *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 4 | **seek** | future |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **slay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | you |  | the rush |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 6 | **crowd** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | close, together *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **trampling** |  | you |  |  | foot |  |  | 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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