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title: No man can ever know now whence the Algonkin races came. — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: No man can ever know now whence the Algonkin races came. Who acts: man, Algonkin. 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 85

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No man can ever know now whence the Algonkin races came.

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**Who acts:** man, Algonkin · **What happens:** know, race, come

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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 (man, Algonkin), 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:pg78673:3:85
# text = No man can ever know now whence the Algonkin races came.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
7	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Algonkin	Algonkin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	races	race	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | can | no man |  |  |  | ever; now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **race** | present | the Algonkin |  |  |  |  | whence *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past | the Algonkin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: 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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