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title: Quoth: “Some one is coming at midnight From whom thou shalt shrink w… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Quoth: “Some one is coming at midnight From whom thou shalt shrink with great trembling, But fear not, take courage, my nephew, Although he shall come to our wigwam At midnight when all things are sleeping.” Who acts: one, thou, you, nephew. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poe
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 90

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Quoth: “Some one is coming at midnight From whom thou shalt shrink with great trembling, But fear not, take courage, my nephew, Although he shall come to our wigwam At midnight when all things are sleeping.”

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**Who acts:** one, thou, you, nephew, things · **What happens:** come, shrink, take, sleep · **To what, where:** courage, wigwam

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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 (one, thou, you, nephew), 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:pg78673:15:95
# text = Quoth: “Some one is coming at midnight From whom thou shalt shrink with great trembling, But fear not, take courage, my nephew, Although he shall come to our wigwam At midnight when all things are sleeping.”
1	Quoth	Quoth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
3	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	appos	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	From	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
12	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
13	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	shrink	shrink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	trembling	trembling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
23	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	nephew	nephew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	At	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
38	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	42	advmod	_	_
39	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	40	det	_	_
40	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
41	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present · progressive | some one |  |  |  | midnight |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shrink** *in a quote* | shall | thou |  |  |  |  | with great trembling; whom *obl* | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from whom=Stimulus |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | courage and my nephew |  |  |  | Quoth *vocative* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | shall | nephew |  |  | our wigwam | midnight |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to wigwam=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **sleep** *in a quote* | present · progressive | all things |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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