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title: Thus answered Uncle Turtle: “I am poor and old and homely, With no g… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus answered Uncle Turtle: “I am poor and old and homely, With no garments fit for a feast; Therefore ’tis better for me To smoke my pipe at home.” Who acts: I, garments, me. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 47

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Thus answered Uncle Turtle: “I am poor and old and homely, With no garments fit for a feast; Therefore ’tis better for me To smoke my pipe at home.”

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**Who acts:** I, garments, me · **What happens:** answer, be, fit, smoke · **To what, where:** Uncle Turtle, pipe, home · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, garments, me), 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:pg78673:8:47
# text = Thus answered Uncle Turtle: “I am poor and old and homely, With no garments fit for a feast; Therefore ’tis better for me To smoke my pipe at home.”
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	homely	homely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	With	with	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	fit	fit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	’	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	tis	tis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	parataxis	_	_
27	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	To	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	smoke	smoke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	csubj	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	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 |  |  | Uncle Turtle |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  | poor *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* |  | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* |  | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fit** *in a quote* | present | no garments |  |  |  |  | for a feast | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **smoke** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | me | my pipe |  | home |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pipe=Source |

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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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