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title: The word ‘a’ was added to ‘... in a pickle ...’ — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The word ‘a’ was added to ‘... in a pickle ...’ Who acts: word. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 22, sentence 24

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The word ‘a’ was added to ‘... in a pickle ...’

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**Who acts:** word · **What happens:** add, ‘ · **To what, where:** ’, word

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word), 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:pg78673:22:25
# text = The word ‘a’ was added to ‘... in a pickle ...’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	‘	‘	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pickle	pickle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
14	...	...	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | past · passive | the word *not said here* | a ’ |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **‘** | infinitive | the word *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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