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title: Lappilatwan Answered him quietly: “_Noses_, ‘my grandchild:’ I canno… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Lappilatwan Answered him quietly: “_Noses_, ‘my grandchild:’ I cannot go hence. Who acts: Lappilatwan. 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 71

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Lappilatwan Answered him quietly: “\_Noses\_, ‘my grandchild:’ I cannot go hence.

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**Who acts:** Lappilatwan · **What happens:** answer, not go · **To what, where:** \_ Noses, Sexkâtû · **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 (Lappilatwan), 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:pg78673:16:71
# text = Lappilatwan Answered him quietly: “_Noses_, ‘my grandchild:’ I cannot go hence.
1	Lappilatwan	Lappilatwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	Answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Noses	nose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	grandchild	grandchild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’	'	SYM	SYM	_	19	punct	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
20	hence	hence	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | Lappilatwan | \_ Noses and my grandchild | Sexkâtû |  |  | quietly *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | can | Lappilatwan |  |  |  |  | hence *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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