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title: “You can do it with ease,” replied _Pilowî wʾskichin_, That is “the… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: “You can do it with ease,” replied _Pilowî wʾskichin_, That is “the stranger man;” “Just put it on your head.” Who acts: Pilowî wʾskichin, That, you. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 146

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“You can do it with ease,” replied \_Pilowî wʾskichin\_, That is “the stranger man;” “Just put it on your head.”

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**Who acts:** Pilowî wʾskichin, That, you · **What happens:** reply, be, put · **To what, where:** stranger man, house, head · **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 (Pilowî wʾskichin, That, you), 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:pg78673:18:146
# text = “You can do it with ease,” replied _Pilowî wʾskichin_, That is “the stranger man;” “Just put it on your head.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
10	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Pilowî	Pilowî	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	wʾskichin	wʾskichin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Pilowî wʾskichin |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | That | the stranger man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** *in a quote* | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | house |  | your head |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on head=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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