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title: Then quoth the Wizard laughing: “Father mine, Had I repented and min… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then quoth the Wizard laughing: “Father mine, Had I repented and mine art eschewed, Then were we both of us dead men this day.” Who acts: you, we. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 145

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Then quoth the Wizard laughing: “Father mine, Had I repented and mine art eschewed, Then were we both of us dead men this day.”

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**Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** quoth, repent, eschew, be · **To what, where:** Wizard laughing, Priest, dead men · **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 (you, we), 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:pg78673:14:145
# text = Then quoth the Wizard laughing: “Father mine, Had I repented and mine art eschewed, Then were we both of us dead men this day.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	quoth	quoth	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Wizard	wizard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	laughing	laughing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	mine	mine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	Had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	repented	repent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	eschewed	eschew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
22	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	_
25	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quoth** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then; day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **repent** *in a quote* | past · perfect · passive |  | the Wizard laughing |  |  |  | Father mine *nsubj:pass*; I *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **eschew** *in a quote* | participle · passive |  | the Priest *= priest* |  |  |  | art *nsubj* | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: subject=Location |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | we | dead men |  |  | then |  | 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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