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title: _”[41] “I have left the Black Cat on an island, I shall be the chief… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: _”[41] “I have left the Black Cat on an island, I shall be the chieftain now.” Who acts: I. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 53

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\_”\[41\] “I have left the Black Cat on an island, I shall be the chieftain now.”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** leave, be · **To what, where:** Black Cat, island, chieftain, 41

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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 (I), 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:pg78673:12:53
# text = _”[41] “I have left the Black Cat on an island, I shall be the chieftain now.”
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	41	41	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	chieftain	chieftain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
22	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | present · perfect | I | the Black Cat |  | a island |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cat=Theme on island=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | shall | I | the chieftain |  |  | now |  | 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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