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title: The Wizard cried in Indian tongue: “_Nda Awâni niûna ndelima-- Magah… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The Wizard cried in Indian tongue: “_Nda Awâni niûna ndelima-- Magahôûnana_,” which means: “My friends, We shall not torture any one (to-day).” Who acts: Wizard, friends. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 139

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The Wizard cried in Indian tongue: “\_Nda Awâni niûna ndelima-- Magahôûnana\_,” which means: “My friends, We shall not torture any one (to-day).”

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**Who acts:** Wizard, friends · **What happens:** cry, mean, not torture · **To what, where:** Indian tongue, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wizard, friends), 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:pg78673:14:139
# text = The Wizard cried in Indian tongue: “_Nda Awâni niûna ndelima-- Magahôûnana_,” which means: “My friends, We shall not torture any one (to-day).”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Wizard	Wizard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Nda	Nda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Awâni	Awâni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
12	niûna	niûna	X	FW	_	13	compound	_	_
13	ndelima	ndelima	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Magahôûnana	Magahôûnana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	torture	torture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
30	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
31	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the Wizard |  |  | Indian tongue |  | Nda Awâni and niûna ndelima and Magahôûnana *parataxis* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **torture** *in a quote* | shall | My friends | any one |  |  |  | We *nsubj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus one=Experiencer |

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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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