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title: And I may here mention that my colleague, while his specialty is the… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: And I may here mention that my colleague, while his specialty is the Semitic tongues, also has (like my late friend E. H. Palmer, who professed Arabic at Cambridge) the gift of the Romany and even Shelta, which are as the Latin and Greek of the roads! Who acts: I, specialty, late friend, Shelta. A s
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 1, sentence 106

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And I may here mention that my colleague, while his specialty is the Semitic tongues, also has (like my late friend E. H. Palmer, who professed Arabic at Cambridge) the gift of the Romany and even Shelta, which are as the Latin and Greek of the roads!

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**Who acts:** I, specialty, late friend, Shelta · **What happens:** mention, be, have, profess, gift · **To what, where:** colleague, Semitic tongues, late friend, Arabic, Cambridge, Romany

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, specialty, late friend, Shelta), 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:pg78673:1:107
# text = And I may here mention that my colleague, while his specialty is the Semitic tongues, also has (like my late friend E. H. Palmer, who professed Arabic at Cambridge) the gift of the Romany and even Shelta, which are as the Latin and Greek of the roads!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	mention	mention	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	colleague	colleague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	specialty	specialty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Semitic	semitic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	also	also	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
25	E.	E.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
26	H.	H.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
27	Palmer	Palmer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	professed	profess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
31	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Cambridge	Cambridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	Romany	romany	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	even	even	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	Shelta	Shelta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	nsubj	_	_
45	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
46	as	as	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	Latin	Latin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	appos	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	Greek	Greek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mention** *speech: other* | may | I | my colleague |  | here |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | book's specialty | the Semitic tongues |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present |  | my late friend |  |  |  | the gift of the Romany and Shelta *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **profess** | past | my late friend | Arabic |  | Cambridge |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent arabic=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | Shelta |  |  |  |  | as the Latin and Greek of the roads; Greek of the roads *conj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **gift** |  |  | the Romany and Shelta |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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