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title: And so he said to himself: “If this be all deceit, It was very shrew… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: And so he said to himself: “If this be all deceit, It was very shrewdly planned, To bid me not open it Until I should be at home. Who acts: death, this. 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 67

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And so he said to himself: “If this be all deceit, It was very shrewdly planned, To bid me not open it Until I should be at home.

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**Who acts:** death, this · **What happens:** say, be, plan, not bid, open · **To what, where:** death, deceit, home · **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, this), 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:pg78673:6:67
# text = And so he said to himself: “If this be all deceit, It was very shrewdly planned, To bid me not open it Until I should be at home.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	deceit	deceit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	shrewdly	shrewdly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	planned	plan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	To	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	bid	bid	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
25	open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	Until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
29	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	advcl	_	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | death |  | death |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | infinitive | this | all deceit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **plan** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | deceit |  |  |  | shrewdly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **bid** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | death |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **open** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | deceit |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | should | death |  |  | home |  |  | 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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