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title: Then the murdering brothers Who never spared a soul, Hearing that so… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the murdering brothers Who never spared a soul, Hearing that some one was talking, Peeped slyly in, and seeing A stranger so like their father That they knew not which was which, Said: “This is a great magician, But he shall be tried ere he goes, And that right bitterly.” Who acts: murdering br
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 46

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Then the murdering brothers Who never spared a soul, Hearing that some one was talking, Peeped slyly in, and seeing A stranger so like their father That they knew not which was which, Said: “This is a great magician, But he shall be tried ere he goes, And that right bitterly.”

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**Who acts:** murdering brothers, one, soul, This, father · **What happens:** not spare, talk, peep, see, not know, be · **To what, where:** soul, Hearing, stranger, great magician, father, murdering brothers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (murdering brothers, one, soul, This), 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:pg78673:11:46
# text = Then the murdering brothers Who never spared a soul, Hearing that some one was talking, Peeped slyly in, and seeing A stranger so like their father That they knew not which was which, Said: “This is a great magician, But he shall be tried ere he goes, And that right bitterly.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	murdering	murdering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	spared	spare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Peeped	peep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
19	slyly	slyly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
24	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	nmod	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	Said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
40	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	45	nsubj	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
49	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
50	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	aux:pass	_	_
51	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	conj	_	_
52	ere	ere	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
53	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
54	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
57	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	58	nsubj	_	_
58	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	parataxis	_	_
59	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **spare** | past | the murdering brothers | a soul and Hearing |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent soul=Asset |
| 2 | **talk** | past · progressive | some one | Hearing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent hearing=Patient |
| 3 | **peep** | participle | some one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slyly *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **see** | gerund | some one *not said here* | a stranger |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **know** | past | soul |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is a** | past |  |  |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | This | a great magician |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **try** *in a quote* | shall · passive |  | father |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **go** *in a quote* | present | father |  |  |  |  | ere *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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