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title: “I call on the Wîwilmekw, I call on the Terrible One, On the One wit… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: “I call on the Wîwilmekw, I call on the Terrible One, On the One with the Horns, I dare him to appear!” Who acts: brother. 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 133

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“I call on the Wîwilmekw, I call on the Terrible One, On the One with the Horns, I dare him to appear!”

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**Who acts:** brother · **What happens:** call, dare, appear · **To what, where:** Wîwilmekw, One, Terrible, song · **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 (brother), 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:pg78673:15:138
# text = “I call on the Wîwilmekw, I call on the Terrible One, On the One with the Horns, I dare him to appear!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Wîwilmekw	Wîwilmekw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Terrible	Terrible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	On	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	One	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Horns	Horn	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	dare	dare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *in a quote* | present | brother |  |  | the Wîwilmekw |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **call** *in a quote* | present | brother | the One with the Horns |  | the Terrible |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dare** *in a quote* | present | brother | song |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **appear** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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