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title: But when she came To visit her grandchild One thing she ever Said er… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: But when she came To visit her grandchild One thing she ever Said ere she left her: “One thing I bid thee With hardest warning, To one thing I bind thee With a strong will: Look that thou never Seek in thy wandering The Laʿtogwesnuk, The land of the North: For there dwells Pûn, Pûn, the winter; A de
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 114

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But when she came To visit her grandchild One thing she ever Said ere she left her: “One thing I bid thee With hardest warning, To one thing I bind thee With a strong will: Look that thou never Seek in thy wandering The Laʿtogwesnuk, The land of the North: For there dwells Pûn, Pûn, the winter; A deadly foe Thou wilt surely find him.

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**Who acts:** woman, One thing, thou, thy · **What happens:** come, visit, say, leave, bid, bind · **To what, where:** deadly foe, grandchild, One thing, rain, thee, Laʿtogwesnuk · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, One thing, thou, thy), 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:pg78673:16:114
# text = But when she came To visit her grandchild One thing she ever Said ere she left her: “One thing I bid thee With hardest warning, To one thing I bind thee With a strong will: Look that thou never Seek in thy wandering The Laʿtogwesnuk, The land of the North: For there dwells Pûn, Pûn, the winter; A deadly foe Thou wilt surely find him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	To	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	grandchild	grandchild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
13	Said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	ere	ere	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	bid	bid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
24	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	obj	_	_
25	With	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	hardest	hard	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
27	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	To	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	bind	bind	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
34	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	33	obj	_	_
35	With	with	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	nsubj	_	_
38	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
40	Look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
41	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
42	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	44	nsubj	_	_
43	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
44	Seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	advcl	_	_
45	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
46	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	47	nsubj	_	_
47	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	44	advcl	_	_
48	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	Laʿtogwesnuk	Laʿtogwesnuk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	appos	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	59	punct	_	_
57	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
58	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	59	expl	_	_
59	dwells	dwell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	parataxis	_	_
60	Pûn	Pûn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	59	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
62	Pûn	Pûn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	60	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
64	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	69	punct	_	_
67	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	69	det	_	_
68	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	69	amod	_	_
69	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
70	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	73	nsubj	_	_
71	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	73	aux	_	_
72	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	73	advmod	_	_
73	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	69	acl:relcl	_	_
74	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	73	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | woman | a deadly foe |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **visit** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* | woman's grandchild |  |  |  | One thing *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | woman | One thing *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | past | woman | rain |  |  |  | ere *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **bid** *in a quote* | past | One thing | thee |  |  |  | with hardest warning; I *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **bind** *in a quote* | present | woman | thee |  |  |  | to one thing | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient to thing=Co-Patient |
| 7 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 8 | **not** **seek** *in a quote* | infinitive | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **wonder** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | gerund | thy | the Laʿtogwesnuk |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **dwell** *in a quote* | present |  | Pûn |  | there |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme pûn=Location |
| 11 | **find** *in a quote* | future | Thou | Pûn |  |  |  | surely *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |

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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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