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title: Then when he heard how the nephew Had met with the terrible being, H… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then when he heard how the nephew Had met with the terrible being, He said: “This in truth is Muttóntoe, Muttóntoe, the spirit of evil, Who yearns for the flesh of thy kinsman. Who acts: infant, nephew, truth, Muttóntoe. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 15
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 102

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Then when he heard how the nephew Had met with the terrible being, He said: “This in truth is Muttóntoe, Muttóntoe, the spirit of evil, Who yearns for the flesh of thy kinsman.

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**Who acts:** infant, nephew, truth, Muttóntoe · **What happens:** hear, meet, say, be, yearn · **To what, where:** Muttóntoe · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (infant, nephew, truth, Muttóntoe), 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:pg78673:15:107
# text = Then when he heard how the nephew Had met with the terrible being, He said: “This in truth is Muttóntoe, Muttóntoe, the spirit of evil, Who yearns for the flesh of thy kinsman.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	nephew	nephew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	Muttóntoe	Muttóntoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Muttóntoe	Muttóntoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	yearns	yearn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	kinsman	kinsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | infant |  |  |  | then |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **meet** | past · perfect | the nephew |  |  |  |  | with the terrible | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with terrible=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | infant |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | this truth | Muttóntoe and Muttóntoe |  |  |  | the spirit of evil *appos* | tree rules |
| 5 | **yearn** *in a quote* | present | Muttóntoe and Muttóntoe |  |  |  |  | for the flesh of thy kinsman | vn long-32.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for flesh=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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