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title: “That may be true, my nephew,” Quoth Turtle, “but what say you, As t… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: “That may be true, my nephew,” Quoth Turtle, “but what say you, As to the making over The _inside_ of a mortal?” Who acts: That. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 49

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“That may be true, my nephew,” Quoth Turtle, “but what say you, As to the making over The \_inside\_ of a mortal?”

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**Who acts:** That · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** Quoth Turtle · **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 (That), 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:pg78673:8:49
# text = “That may be true, my nephew,” Quoth Turtle, “but what say you, As to the making over The _inside_ of a mortal?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	nephew	nephew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
11	Quoth	Quoth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	obj	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	As	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	making	making	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	ccomp	_	_
24	over	over	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	31	punct	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	mortal	mortal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | may | That |  |  |  |  | my nephew *conj*; Quoth Turtle *advcl*; true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present |  | Quoth Turtle |  |  |  | you *obj*; the making over the \_ of a mortal *ccomp* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme you=Manner |

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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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