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title: Then he asked the Great White Bear: “And thou, Kʾchî Mūʾūin! — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he asked the Great White Bear: “And thou, Kʾchî Mūʾūin! Who acts: squirrel. 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 52

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Then he asked the Great White Bear: “And thou, Kʾchî Mūʾūin!

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**Who acts:** squirrel · **What happens:** ask · **To what, where:** Great White Bear

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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 (squirrel), 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:pg78673:4:52
# text = Then he asked the Great White Bear: “And thou, Kʾchî Mūʾūin!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Kʾchî	Kʾchî	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	Mūʾūin	Mūʾūin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | squirrel | the Great White Bear |  |  | then | thou  Kʾchî *ccomp* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bear=Recipient |

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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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