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title: She answered, “I have another, A husband who suits me better Than hi… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: She answered, “I have another, A husband who suits me better Than him whom first I married. Who acts: wife, husband. 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 9

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She answered, “I have another, A husband who suits me better Than him whom first I married.

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**Who acts:** wife, husband · **What happens:** answer, have, suit, marry · **To what, where:** another, wife · **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 (wife, husband), 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:pg78673:14:9
# text = She answered, “I have another, A husband who suits me better Than him whom first I married.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
9	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	suits	suit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	xcomp	_	_
15	Than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
18	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	advmod	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | wife | another |  |  |  | a husband *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **suit** *in a quote* | present | a husband | wife |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **marry** *in a quote* | past | wife |  |  |  |  | whom *obj*; first *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient |

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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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