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title: Elkomtûejul, “he is calling him,” with obviative ending -_ul_ (M.). — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Elkomtûejul, “he is calling him,” with obviative ending -_ul_ (M.). Who acts: Elkomtûejul. 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 93

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Elkomtûejul, “he is calling him,” with obviative ending -\_ul\_ (M.).

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**Who acts:** Elkomtûejul · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** snake · **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 (Elkomtûejul), 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:pg78673:21:95
# text = Elkomtûejul, “he is calling him,” with obviative ending -_ul_ (M.).
1	Elkomtûejul	Elkomtûejul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	obviative	obviative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	ending	ending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	ul	ul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	xcomp	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	M.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Elkomtûejul |  | snake |  |  | with obviative ending | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

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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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