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title: Then quoth the wizard: “Thou shalt see thy son die here to-night, Fo… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then quoth the wizard: “Thou shalt see thy son die here to-night, For we have taken him too far to let him back to thee.” Who acts: you, Thou, son, 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 71

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Then quoth the wizard: “Thou shalt see thy son die here to-night, For we have taken him too far to let him back to thee.”

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**Who acts:** you, Thou, son, we · **What happens:** quoth, see, die, take, let back · **To what, where:** wizard, son, thee

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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, Thou, son, 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:pg78673:14:71
# text = Then quoth the wizard: “Thou shalt see thy son die here to-night, For we have taken him too far to let him back to thee.”
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	4	det	_	_
4	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
8	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
10	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	too	too	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	back	back	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	TO	_	30	case	_	_
30	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## 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* | the wizard |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | shall | Thou | thy son |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **die** *in a quote* | infinitive | thy son *not said here* |  |  | here | night |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | present · perfect | we |  | son |  |  | far *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 5 | **let back** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | son | thee |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to thou=Recipient |

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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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