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title: Calling then Kchi Mūs, Big Moose, the Master said: “But say what wou… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Calling then Kchi Mūs, Big Moose, the Master said: “But say what would’st thou do If thou should’st meet with Man?” Who acts: Master, thou. 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 119

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Calling then Kchi Mūs, Big Moose, the Master said: “But say what would’st thou do If thou should’st meet with Man?”

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**Who acts:** Master, thou · **What happens:** call, say, do, meet · **To what, where:** would’st · **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 (Master, thou), 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:pg78673:4:119
# text = Calling then Kchi Mūs, Big Moose, the Master said: “But say what would’st thou do If thou should’st meet with Man?”
1	Calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
3	Kchi	Kchi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	xcomp	_	_
4	Mūs	Mūs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	Big	Big	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
7	Moose	Moose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	obj	_	_
17	would’st	would'st	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
18	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
19	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
20	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
22	should’st	should'	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
23	meet	meet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | gerund | the Master *not said here* |  |  |  | then | Kchi *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the Master |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | present | thou | would’st |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 5 | **meet** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* |  | thou |  |  |  |  | with Man | 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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