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title: “_O kini nikʾn_,” “mother, see,” he cried in wonder great. — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: “_O kini nikʾn_,” “mother, see,” he cried in wonder great. Who acts: mother, arrow. 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 48

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“\_O kini nikʾn\_,” “mother, see,” he cried in wonder great.

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**Who acts:** mother, arrow · **What happens:** see, cry · **To what, where:** wonder · **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 (mother, arrow), 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:pg78673:14:48
# text = “_O kini nikʾn_,” “mother, see,” he cried in wonder great.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	O	o	X	GW	_	16	advmod	_	_
4	kini	kini	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	flat:foreign	_	_
5	nikʾn	nikʾn	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | arrow |  |  | wonder |  | great *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wonder=Location |

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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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