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title: But, being asked what he Would do if chased by Man, Miʿko at once ex… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: But, being asked what he Would do if chased by Man, Miʿko at once exclaimed: “I would climb up a tree As fast as legs could run.” Who acts: Miʿko, I, legs. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 116

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But, being asked what he Would do if chased by Man, Miʿko at once exclaimed: “I would climb up a tree As fast as legs could run.”

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**Who acts:** Miʿko, I, legs · **What happens:** ask, do, chase, exclaim, climb up, run · **To what, where:** tree · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miʿko, I, legs), 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:pg78673:4:116
# text = But, being asked what he Would do if chased by Man, Miʿko at once exclaimed: “I would climb up a tree As fast as legs could run.”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	chased	chase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Miʿko	Miʿko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	17	advmod	_	_
17	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	As	as	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
30	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | would | Miʿko |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 3 | **chase** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | Miʿko *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by Man and Miʿko | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by man=Trajectory |
| 4 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | Miʿko *not said here* |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **climb up** *in a quote* | would | I | a tree |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme |
| 6 | **run** *in a quote* | could | legs |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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