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title: “If you dare take me by My horns,” the fiend replied, “And scrape th… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: “If you dare take me by My horns,” the fiend replied, “And scrape them with your knife, And lay the scrapings by, Then you may have your wish.” Who acts: you, fiend, your. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 9

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“If you dare take me by My horns,” the fiend replied, “And scrape them with your knife, And lay the scrapings by, Then you may have your wish.”

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**Who acts:** you, fiend, your · **What happens:** take, reply, scrape, lay, have, wish · **To what, where:** fiend, horns, scrapings, wish · **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 (you, fiend, your), 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:pg78673:16:9
# text = “If you dare take me by My horns,” the fiend replied, “And scrape them with your knife, And lay the scrapings by, Then you may have your wish.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	dare	dare	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fiend	fiend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	scrape	scrape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	scrapings	scraping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
34	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** *in a quote* | dare | you | the fiend *= fiend* |  |  |  | by My horns | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the fiend |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **scrape** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | horns *= horn* |  |  |  | with your knife | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient with knife=Instrument |
| 4 | **lay** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | the scrapings |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scraping=Result |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | may | you | your wish |  |  | then |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient |
| 6 | **wish** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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