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title: Then the Pʾmûla told the man: “If thou wilt let me go, I’ll give to… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Pʾmûla told the man: “If thou wilt let me go, I’ll give to thee another charm which aye will bring thee luck.” Who acts: Pʾmûla, thou, aye. 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 90

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Then the Pʾmûla told the man: “If thou wilt let me go, I’ll give to thee another charm which aye will bring thee luck.”

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**Who acts:** Pʾmûla, thou, aye · **What happens:** tell, let, go, give, bring · **To what, where:** man, Pʾmûla, charm, thee · **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 (Pʾmûla, thou, aye), 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:pg78673:14:90
# text = Then the Pʾmûla told the man: “If thou wilt let me go, I’ll give to thee another charm which aye will bring thee luck.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Pʾmûla	Pʾmûla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
11	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	TO	_	20	case	_	_
20	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	obl	_	_
21	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	24	det	_	_
24	aye	aye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	obj	_	_
28	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the Pʾmûla |  | the man |  | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | thou | the Pʾmûla *= pʾmûla* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Pʾmûla *= pʾmûla* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **give** *in a quote* | future | the Pʾmûla *= pʾmûla* | another charm | thee |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent charm=Theme to thou=Recipient |
| 5 | **bring** *in a quote* | future | which aye | thee |  |  |  | luck *obj* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent thou=Destination luck=Theme |

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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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