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title: And truly this was like The casting oil on fire, And men and women a… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: And truly this was like The casting oil on fire, And men and women all Were raging to inquire About the mystery, And ask the wife herself Who might her husband be? Who acts: this, men. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 102

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And truly this was like The casting oil on fire, And men and women all Were raging to inquire About the mystery, And ask the wife herself Who might her husband be?

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**Who acts:** this, men · **What happens:** be, rage, inquire, ask · **To what, where:** fire, wife

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, men), 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:pg78673:18:102
# text = And truly this was like The casting oil on fire, And men and women all Were raging to inquire About the mystery, And ask the wife herself Who might her husband be?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	casting	casting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	all	all	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	Were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	raging	rage	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	inquire	inquire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	About	about	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	mystery	mystery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	28	nmod:unmarked	_	_
30	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
31	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this |  |  | fire |  | like the casting oil; truly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rage** | past · progressive | men and women |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **inquire** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | men and women *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about the mystery | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about mystery=Topic |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | men and women *not said here* |  | the wife  girl |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient |

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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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