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title: One morning Squʿtes sang to the Leaf: “Let us go and visit Kʾmûsomsʾ… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: One morning Squʿtes sang to the Leaf: “Let us go and visit Kʾmûsomsʾn Our mighty grandfather--the Mountain: He made us happy--let us thank him!” Who acts: Squʿtes, us, LEAF. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 50

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One morning Squʿtes sang to the Leaf: “Let us go and visit Kʾmûsomsʾn Our mighty grandfather--the Mountain: He made us happy--let us thank him!”

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**Who acts:** Squʿtes, us, LEAF · **What happens:** sing, let, go, visit, make, thank · **To what, where:** Leaf, us, Kʾmûsomsʾn · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Squʿtes, us, LEAF), 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:pg78673:17:50
# text = One morning Squʿtes sang to the Leaf: “Let us go and visit Kʾmûsomsʾn Our mighty grandfather--the Mountain: He made us happy--let us thank him!”
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Squʿtes	Squʿtes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	visit	visit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	Kʾmûsomsʾn	Kʾmûsomsʾn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	_
29	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	thank	thank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Squʿtes |  | the Leaf |  | morning |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to leaf=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **visit** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Kʾmûsomsʾn |  |  |  | Our mighty grandfather *obj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** *in a quote* | past | LEAF | us |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | LEAF *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* |  | LEAF |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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