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title: _kt-ăgʾnōdʾmŭl_, “I will tell thee”; _ăgŭnôdŭmaak′_, “one relates.” — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: _kt-ăgʾnōdʾmŭl_, “I will tell thee”; _ăgŭnôdŭmaak′_, “one relates.” Who acts: dinners, kt ăgʾnōdʾmŭl. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 55

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\_kt-ăgʾnōdʾmŭl\_, “I will tell thee”; \_ăgŭnôdŭmaak′\_, “one relates.”

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**Who acts:** dinners, kt ăgʾnōdʾmŭl · **What happens:** tell, relate · **To what, where:** thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dinners, kt ăgʾnōdʾmŭl), 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:pg78673:21:56
# text = _kt-ăgʾnōdʾmŭl_, “I will tell thee”; _ăgŭnôdŭmaak′_, “one relates.”
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	kt	kt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	ăgʾnōdʾmŭl	ăgʾnōdʾmŭl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:outer	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
11	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	ăgŭnôdŭmaak	ăgŭnôdŭmaak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	relates	relate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | future | dinners *= dinner* |  | thee |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient |
| 2 | **relate** *in a quote* | present | kt ăgʾnōdʾmŭl |  |  |  |  | ăgŭnôdŭmaak ′ *nsubj*; one *nsubj* | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme |

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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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