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title: Ere long the news spread, Soon all the squirrels Said: “_Sexkâtûwuk… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Ere long the news spread, Soon all the squirrels Said: “_Sexkâtûwuk Kʾputwusin_,” “Let us take council.” Who acts: news, squirrels, Sexkâtûwuk, us. 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 77

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Ere long the news spread, Soon all the squirrels Said: “\_Sexkâtûwuk Kʾputwusin\_,” “Let us take council.”

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**Who acts:** news, squirrels, Sexkâtûwuk, us · **What happens:** spread, say, let, take · **To what, where:** us, council · **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 (news, squirrels, Sexkâtûwuk, us), 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:pg78673:16:77
# text = Ere long the news spread, Soon all the squirrels Said: “_Sexkâtûwuk Kʾputwusin_,” “Let us take council.”
1	Ere	ere	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	Said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Sexkâtûwuk	Sexkâtûwuk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
16	Kʾputwusin	Kʾputwusin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
22	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | past | the news |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | all squirrels |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | Sexkâtûwuk | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | council |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=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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