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title: HOW A WITCH SOUGHT TO CAJOLE THE MASTER — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: HOW A WITCH SOUGHT TO CAJOLE THE MASTER Who acts: WITCH. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 13

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HOW A WITCH SOUGHT TO CAJOLE THE MASTER

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**Who acts:** WITCH · **What happens:** seek, cajole · **To what, where:** MASTER

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (WITCH), 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:pg78673:11:13
# text = HOW A WITCH SOUGHT TO CAJOLE THE MASTER
1	HOW	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	WITCH	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	SOUGHT	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	TO	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	CAJOLE	cajole	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	MASTER	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | participle | a WITCH |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cajole** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a WITCH *not said here* | the MASTER |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=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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