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title: Oddly enough Kulóskap means “the liar,” from a stem √_klûsk_, “lie”… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Oddly enough Kulóskap means “the liar,” from a stem √_klûsk_, “lie” + _ap_, “a man, person, one who stands.” Who acts: enough Kulóskap. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 31

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Oddly enough Kulóskap means “the liar,” from a stem √\_klûsk\_, “lie” + \_ap\_, “a man, person, one who stands.”

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**Who acts:** enough Kulóskap · **What happens:** mean, stand · **To what, where:** liar, stem √ · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enough Kulóskap), 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:pg78673:3:31
# text = Oddly enough Kulóskap means “the liar,” from a stem √_klûsk_, “lie” + _ap_, “a man, person, one who stands.”
1	Oddly	oddly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	liar	liar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	√	√	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	klûsk	klûsk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	23	cc	_	_
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	ap	AP	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	appos	_	_
33	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | enough Kulóskap | the liar |  | a stem √ and klûsk |  | lie + ap and a man's person *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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