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title: To which his answer was “It is Ketaksuwauʿt That is the Spirits’ Roa… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: To which his answer was “It is Ketaksuwauʿt That is the Spirits’ Road” (Meaning the Milky Way). Who acts: answer, That, Ketaksuwauʿt, boy. 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 19

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To which his answer was “It is Ketaksuwauʿt That is the Spirits’ Road” (Meaning the Milky Way).

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**Who acts:** answer, That, Ketaksuwauʿt, boy · **What happens:** be, mean, answer · **To what, where:** Ketaksuwauʿt, Road, Milky Way, answer

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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 (answer, That, Ketaksuwauʿt, boy), 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:pg78673:18:19
# text = To which his answer was “It is Ketaksuwauʿt That is the Spirits’ Road” (Meaning the Milky Way).
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	obl	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	Ketaksuwauʿt	Ketaksuwauʿt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Milky	milky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Way	Way	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | answer | Ketaksuwauʿt |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | That | the Spirits's Road |  |  |  | the Spirits *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | gerund | Ketaksuwauʿt *not said here* | the Milky Way |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 5 | **answer** |  | boy |  |  |  |  |  | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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