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title: Replied, “I would know no limit. — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Replied, “I would know no limit. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 25

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Replied, “I would know no limit.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** reply, know · **To what, where:** limit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg78673:5:25
# text = Replied, “I would know no limit.
1	Replied	reply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	limit	limit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | would | I | no limit |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer limit=Stimulus |

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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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