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title: Thus he then answered: “You have been here Long--and far _too_ long. — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus he then answered: “You have been here Long--and far _too_ long. Who acts: Sexkâtû, You. 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 69

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Thus he then answered: “You have been here Long--and far \_too\_ long.

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**Who acts:** Sexkâtû, You · **What happens:** answer, be · **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 (Sexkâtû, You), 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:pg78673:16:69
# text = Thus he then answered: “You have been here Long--and far _too_ long.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
10	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
11	Long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	_
18	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Sexkâtû |  |  | here | then | long, thus *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present · perfect | You |  |  |  |  | long *property* | 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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