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title: “In faith,” replied Kchi Mūs, “I’d canter through the woods Fast as… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: “In faith,” replied Kchi Mūs, “I’d canter through the woods Fast as my legs would fly.” Who acts: Kchi, 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 120

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“In faith,” replied Kchi Mūs, “I’d canter through the woods Fast as my legs would fly.”

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**Who acts:** Kchi, legs · **What happens:** reply, have, fly · **To what, where:** faith · **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 (Kchi, 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:pg78673:4:120
# text = “In faith,” replied Kchi Mūs, “I’d canter through the woods Fast as my legs would fly.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Kchi	Kchi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	Mūs	Mūs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’d	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	canter	cant	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	xcomp	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	Fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Kchi |  |  | faith |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | past | Kchi |  |  |  |  | cant, fast *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fly** *in a quote* | would | my legs |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «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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