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title: Replied the Master, laughing, “That is something harder to do, Else… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Replied the Master, laughing, “That is something harder to do, Else I were not at work So long in this world of ours. Who acts: That, I. 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 51

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Replied the Master, laughing, “That is something harder to do, Else I were not at work So long in this world of ours.

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**Who acts:** That, I · **What happens:** reply, laugh, be, do, not be · **To what, where:** Master, something, work · **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, I), 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:pg78673:8:51
# text = Replied the Master, laughing, “That is something harder to do, Else I were not at work So long in this world of ours.
1	Replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	_
11	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	Else	else	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
21	So	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	ours	our	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  | the Master |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent master=Topic |
| 2 | **laugh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | That | something |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | That *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | past | I |  |  | work |  | in this world of ours; else, long *property* | 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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