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title: Lappilatwan Had faith in his warriors: Truly he trusted That they co… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Lappilatwan Had faith in his warriors: Truly he trusted That they could defend him. Who acts: Lappilatwan, warriors. 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 89

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Lappilatwan Had faith in his warriors: Truly he trusted That they could defend him.

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**Who acts:** Lappilatwan, warriors · **What happens:** have, trust, defend · **To what, where:** faith, warriors, That, LAPPILATWAN

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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, warriors), 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:pg78673:16:89
# text = Lappilatwan Had faith in his warriors: Truly he trusted That they could defend him.
1	Lappilatwan	Lappilatwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	Had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	Truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	trusted	trust	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	obj	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	defend	defend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Lappilatwan | faith |  | LAPPILATWAN's warriors |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Patient |
| 2 | **trust** | past | LAPPILATWAN | That |  |  |  | truly *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 3 | **defend** | could | warriors *= warrior* |  | LAPPILATWAN |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |

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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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