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title: Indeed, in the latter country, I have been asked if I would have a f… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Indeed, in the latter country, I have been asked if I would have a fairy tale chanted or repeated as prose! Who acts: I. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 1, sentence 89

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Indeed, in the latter country, I have been asked if I would have a fairy tale chanted or repeated as prose!

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** ask, have, chant, repeat · **To what, where:** I, latter country, fairy tale

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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), 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:pg78673:1:90
# text = Indeed, in the latter country, I have been asked if I would have a fairy tale chanted or repeated as prose!
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	chanted	chant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	prose	prose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present · perfect · passive |  | I |  | the latter country |  | indeed *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | I | a fairy tale |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Patient |
| 3 | **chant** | participle |  | a fairy tale *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **repeat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | as prose | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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