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title: “How then shall I be able to outwit A foe so wily and so full of ski… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: “How then shall I be able to outwit A foe so wily and so full of skill?” Who acts: uncle. 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 35

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“How then shall I be able to outwit A foe so wily and so full of skill?”

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**Who acts:** uncle · **What happens:** be, outwit · **To what, where:** foe

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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 (uncle), 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:pg78673:15:35
# text = “How then shall I be able to outwit A foe so wily and so full of skill?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	outwit	outwit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	wily	wily	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | shall | uncle |  |  |  | then | able *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **outwit** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | uncle *not said here* | a foe |  |  |  | wily *property* | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot foe=Theme |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* |  | uncle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of skill | 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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