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title: “Keep that till you return, Then give it to the girl Who made the tr… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: “Keep that till you return, Then give it to the girl Who made the trouble--she Needs medicine as well.” Who acts: you, girl. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 15

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“Keep that till you return, Then give it to the girl Who made the trouble--she Needs medicine as well.”

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**Who acts:** you, girl · **What happens:** keep, return, give, make, need · **To what, where:** that, drink, girl, trouble, medicine

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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 (you, girl), 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:pg78673:16:15
# text = “Keep that till you return, Then give it to the girl Who made the trouble--she Needs medicine as well.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	_
4	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	return	return	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	Needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
21	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	20	advmod	_	_
23	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 2 | **return** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | drink | the girl |  | then |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to girl=Recipient |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | past | the girl | the trouble |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Product |
| 5 | **need** *in a quote* | present | girl | medicine |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot medicine=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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