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title: But fear not, my lad, I will aid thee, I’ll tell thee the way to o’e… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: But fear not, my lad, I will aid thee, I’ll tell thee the way to o’ercome him.” Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 103

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But fear not, my lad, I will aid thee, I’ll tell thee the way to o’ercome him.”

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** not fear, aid, tell, o'ercome · **To what, where:** thee, way, infant · **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 (you, I), 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:pg78673:15:108
# text = But fear not, my lad, I will aid thee, I’ll tell thee the way to o’ercome him.”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	fear	fear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	aid	aid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
11	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
16	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	iobj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	o’ercome	o'ercome	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fear** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | my lad *vocative* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **aid** | future | I | thee |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | future | I | the way | thee |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **o'ercome** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | infant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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