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title: Even so these villagers said: “Suppose you really had All the cold s… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Even so these villagers said: “Suppose you really had All the cold sparkling water There is in the world, what then Would you do with it?” Who acts: villagers, you, sparkling water. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 105

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Even so these villagers said: “Suppose you really had All the cold sparkling water There is in the world, what then Would you do with it?”

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**Who acts:** villagers, you, sparkling water · **What happens:** say, suppose, have, sparkle, be, do · **To what, where:** cold, world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (villagers, you, sparkling water), 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:pg78673:9:105
# text = Even so these villagers said: “Suppose you really had All the cold sparkling water There is in the world, what then Would you do with it?”
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	villagers	villager	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Suppose	suppose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	really	really	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
12	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	27	obj	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
25	Would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | this villagers |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **suppose** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | past | you | all cold |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Patient |
| 4 | **sparkle** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **be** *in a quote* | present | sparkling water | all cold *not said here* |  | there |  | in the world | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot cold=Theme in world=Attribute |
| 6 | **do** *in a quote* | would | you | the world |  |  | then | with water | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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