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title: And mark my words--if you do trouble him, He’ll cause you greater tr… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: And mark my words--if you do trouble him, He’ll cause you greater trouble in the end!” Who acts: you, man, my. 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 49

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And mark my words--if you do trouble him, He’ll cause you greater trouble in the end!”

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**Who acts:** you, man, my · **What happens:** mark, do, cause, word · **To what, where:** words, trouble, you

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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 (you, man, my), 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:pg78673:7:49
# text = And mark my words--if you do trouble him, He’ll cause you greater trouble in the end!”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	mark	mark	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
9	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
12	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** | imperative | you *not said here* | my words |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Destination |
| 2 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | trouble  man |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Eventuality |
| 3 | **cause** | future | man | you |  |  |  | greater trouble *obj* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Causer you=Theme trouble=Eventuality |
| 4 | **word** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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