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title: Now the Master liked it not If, when he had plainly told What it was… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the Master liked it not If, when he had plainly told What it was that one must do, That man should double on him Or quibble, or disobey. Who acts: Master, wish, man. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 54

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Now the Master liked it not If, when he had plainly told What it was that one must do, That man should double on him Or quibble, or disobey.

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**Who acts:** Master, wish, man · **What happens:** not like, tell, be, double, disobey · **To what, where:** wish · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Master, wish, man), 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:pg78673:6:54
# text = Now the Master liked it not If, when he had plainly told What it was that one must do, That man should double on him Or quibble, or disobey.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
7	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
14	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	obj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nsubj	_	_
19	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	double	double	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	quibble	quibble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	disobey	disobey	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **like** | past | the Master | wish |  |  | now |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | Master |  |  |  |  | plainly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | must · past | wish |  |  |  |  | What *obj*; one *nsubj*; do *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **double** | should | that man |  |  |  |  | on Master | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **disobey** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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