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title: This thought unto a certain wife he told-- A clever woman with a rea… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: This thought unto a certain wife he told-- A clever woman with a ready tongue-- And she replied: “O Master--not so fast! Who acts: This, Kulóskap, Long. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 45

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This thought unto a certain wife he told-- A clever woman with a ready tongue-- And she replied: “O Master--not so fast!

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**Who acts:** This, Kulóskap, Long · **What happens:** think, tell, reply · **To what, where:** certain wife · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Kulóskap, Long), 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:pg78673:7:45
# text = This thought unto a certain wife he told-- A clever woman with a ready tongue-- And she replied: “O Master--not so fast!
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	_
24	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | This |  |  |  |  | unto a certain wife | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Kulóskap | a certain wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Long |  |  |  |  | Master *vocative*; fast *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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