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title: Then the brothers said: “This truly Is a very great magician, But he… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the brothers said: “This truly Is a very great magician, But he shall be tried ere he goes, And that right bitterly!” Who acts: brothers, This, Master. 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 52

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Then the brothers said: “This truly Is a very great magician, But he shall be tried ere he goes, And that right bitterly!”

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**Who acts:** brothers, This, Master · **What happens:** say, be, try, go · **To what, where:** great magician, Master · **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 (brothers, This, Master), 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:pg78673:11:52
# text = Then the brothers said: “This truly Is a very 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	3	det	_	_
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
8	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
9	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
20	ere	ere	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
26	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
27	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the brothers |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | This | a great magician |  |  |  | truly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **try** *in a quote* | shall · passive |  | Master |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | present | Master |  |  |  |  | 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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