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title: He answered, “If my Lord Will give me a medicine Which will cure me… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: He answered, “If my Lord Will give me a medicine Which will cure me of every ill, I shall be well content.” Who acts: death, Lord, medicine. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 62

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He answered, “If my Lord Will give me a medicine Which will cure me of every ill, I shall be well content.”

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**Who acts:** death, Lord, medicine · **What happens:** answer, give, cure, be · **To what, where:** medicine, death, well content · **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 (death, Lord, medicine), 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:pg78673:6:62
# text = He answered, “If my Lord Will give me a medicine Which will cure me of every ill, I shall be well content.”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	cure	cure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
24	well	well	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | death |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | my Lord | a medicine | death |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient medicine=Theme |
| 3 | **cure** *in a quote* | future | a medicine | death |  |  |  | of every ill | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer i=Source of ill=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | shall | death | well content |  |  |  |  | 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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