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title: Truly my lord was right, These people are too vile, Too petty and to… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Truly my lord was right, These people are too vile, Too petty and too mean, For subjects to my son, He ne’er shall lead them on To glorious victory! Who acts: lord, people, None. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 108

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Truly my lord was right, These people are too vile, Too petty and too mean, For subjects to my son, He ne’er shall lead them on To glorious victory!

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**Who acts:** lord, people, None · **What happens:** be, lead · **To what, where:** people, glorious victory

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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 (lord, people, None), 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:pg78673:18:108
# text = Truly my lord was right, These people are too vile, Too petty and too mean, For subjects to my son, He ne’er shall lead them on To glorious victory!
1	Truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	vile	vile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	Too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	petty	petty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	For	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	ne’er	ne'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	parataxis	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	To	to	ADP	IN	_	30	fixed	_	_
32	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | my lord |  |  |  |  | subjects to my son *parataxis*; right, truly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | this people |  |  |  |  | vile *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | this people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | this people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **lead** | shall | None | people |  | glorious victory |  | ne’er *nsubj* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on victory=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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