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title: These were her words: “Could the Wind but hear me, I should not long… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: These were her words: “Could the Wind but hear me, I should not long be kept a captive, Soon he would carry the news to the Mountain! Who acts: These, note. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 87

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These were her words: “Could the Wind but hear me, I should not long be kept a captive, Soon he would carry the news to the Mountain!

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**Who acts:** These, note · **What happens:** be, hear, keep, carry · **To what, where:** words, Fire, news, Mountain

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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 (These, note), 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:pg78673:17:87
# text = These were her words: “Could the Wind but hear me, I should not long be kept a captive, Soon he would carry the news to the Mountain!
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	captive	captive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | These | life's words |  |  |  | life *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Fire |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 3 | **keep** *in a quote* | should · passive |  | life's words |  |  |  | I *nsubj*; a captive *obj*; long *property* | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme captive=Attribute |
| 4 | **carry** *in a quote* | would | note | the news | the Mountain |  |  | soon *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent news=Theme to mountain=Destination |

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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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