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title: But one thing he forbade With terrible command: That she should ever… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: But one thing he forbade With terrible command: That she should ever tell To any mortal soul Who ’twas had married her. Who acts: one thing, Mount, mortal soul. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 95

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But one thing he forbade With terrible command: That she should ever tell To any mortal soul Who ’twas had married her.

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**Who acts:** one thing, Mount, mortal soul · **What happens:** forbid, tell, ', marry · **To what, where:** That, mortal soul, twas · **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 (one thing, Mount, mortal soul), 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:pg78673:18:95
# text = But one thing he forbade With terrible command: That she should ever tell To any mortal soul Who ’twas had married her.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	forbade	forbid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	With	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	obl	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	advmod	_	_
14	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
15	To	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
17	mortal	mortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	’	'	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	xcomp	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forbid** | past | one thing |  |  |  |  | with terrible command; Katahdin *nsubj* | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | should | Mount | That | any mortal soul |  | ever |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to soul=Recipient |
| 3 | **'** | past | any mortal soul |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **marry** | past · perfect · passive |  | twas |  |  |  | Mount *obj* | tree rules |

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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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