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title: Then she said to him, “O stranger, As thou art a man of mercy, Pray… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she said to him, “O stranger, As thou art a man of mercy, Pray free me from the _waagûkw_ From the monstrous terrible vermin Which madden me by their bites!” Who acts: death, monstrous terrible vermin, hags. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 12, with i
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 3

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Then she said to him, “O stranger, As thou art a man of mercy, Pray free me from the \_waagûkw\_ From the monstrous terrible vermin Which madden me by their bites!”

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**Who acts:** death, monstrous terrible vermin, hags · **What happens:** say, pray, madden, bite · **To what, where:** sorcerer, waagûkw, death · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (death, monstrous terrible vermin, hags), 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:pg78673:12:3
# text = Then she said to him, “O stranger, As thou art a man of mercy, Pray free me from the _waagûkw_ From the monstrous terrible vermin Which madden me by their bites!”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
13	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Pray	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
20	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	waagûkw	waagûkw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	31	punct	_	_
27	From	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	vermin	vermin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
32	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	madden	madden	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	bites	bite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	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 | death |  | sorcerer |  | then | stranger *conj*; the monstrous terrible vermin *parataxis* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **pray** *in a quote* | infinitive | death *not said here* |  |  | the waagûkw |  | free *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **madden** *in a quote* | present | the monstrous terrible vermin | death |  |  |  | by hags's bites | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
| 4 | **bite** *in a quote* |  | hags *= hag* |  |  |  |  |  | nom bite «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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