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title: The A. stem _oñdoka_, “tell,” is clearly a metathesis of the same ro… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The A. stem _oñdoka_, “tell,” is clearly a metathesis of the same root. Who acts: A. stem. 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 56

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The A. stem \_oñdoka\_, “tell,” is clearly a metathesis of the same root.

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**Who acts:** A. stem · **What happens:** tell, be · **To what, where:** metathesis · **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 (A. stem), 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:pg78673:21:57
# text = The A. stem _oñdoka_, “tell,” is clearly a metathesis of the same root.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	A.	A.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	oñdoka	oñdoka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	metathesis	metathesis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the A. stem | a metathesis |  |  |  | of the same root; clearly *property* | 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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