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title: The stranger said to them: “Know ye not that another, A newer and be… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The stranger said to them: “Know ye not that another, A newer and better way Of felling trees more quickly, Has come into the land?” Who acts: stranger, newer way. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 135

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The stranger said to them: “Know ye not that another, A newer and better way Of felling trees more quickly, Has come into the land?”

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**Who acts:** stranger, newer way · **What happens:** say, not know, fell, come · **To what, where:** Twas, ye, trees, land · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (stranger, newer way), 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:pg78673:18:135
# text = The stranger said to them: “Know ye not that another, A newer and better way Of felling trees more quickly, Has come into the land?”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	obj	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	newer	new	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
19	Of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	felling	fell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
21	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	Has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	ccomp	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the stranger |  | Twas *= twa* |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | ye |  |  |  | a newer way *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fell** *in a quote* | gerund | a newer way *not said here* | trees |  |  |  | quickly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | present · perfect |  |  |  | the land |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into land=Initial\_Location |

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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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