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title: Three of the poems Mitchell wrote out for me in exact, though often… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Three of the poems Mitchell wrote out for me in exact, though often quite ungrammatical language, which was so close to the original that the metres betrayed themselves throughout. Who acts: Three poems, ungrammatical language, metres. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», O
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 1, sentence 93

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Three of the poems Mitchell wrote out for me in exact, though often quite ungrammatical language, which was so close to the original that the metres betrayed themselves throughout.

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**Who acts:** Three poems, ungrammatical language, metres · **What happens:** write out, be, betray · **To what, where:** exact, original

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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 (Three poems, ungrammatical language, metres), 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:pg78673:1:94
# text = Three of the poems Mitchell wrote out for me in exact, though often quite ungrammatical language, which was so close to the original that the metres betrayed themselves throughout.
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Mitchell	Mitchell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	though	though	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	often	often	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	ungrammatical	ungrammatical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	original	original	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	betrayed	betray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	obj	_	_
31	throughout	throughout	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write out** | past | the Three poems |  |  | exact |  | for me; Mitchell *nsubj*; ungrammatical language *parataxis* | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in exact=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past | ungrammatical language |  |  |  |  | to the original; close *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **betray** | past | the metres | the original |  |  |  | Poems *= poem* *obj*; throughout *property* | 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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