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title: True, it may be the slightest--a mere touch of gold-leaf or an illum… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: True, it may be the slightest--a mere touch of gold-leaf or an illuminated letter, or a sun-gleam on the mountain top--but the most inspired poet can never feel that he is really “heart-intimate” with scenery, if it has for him no ties of tradition or folk-lore. Who acts: Wordsworth, inspired poet, 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 1, sentence 113

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True, it may be the slightest--a mere touch of gold-leaf or an illuminated letter, or a sun-gleam on the mountain top--but the most inspired poet can never feel that he is really “heart-intimate” with scenery, if it has for him no ties of tradition or folk-lore.

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**Who acts:** Wordsworth, inspired poet, poet · **What happens:** be, illuminate, not feel, have, touch · **To what, where:** heart intimate, ties, gold leaf

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wordsworth, inspired poet, poet), 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:pg78673:1:114
# text = True, it may be the slightest--a mere touch of gold-leaf or an illuminated letter, or a sun-gleam on the mountain top--but the most inspired poet can never feel that he is really “heart-intimate” with scenery, if it has for him no ties of tradition or folk-lore.
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	slightest	slight	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	mere	mere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	illuminated	illuminate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	gleam	gleam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	34	advmod	_	_
34	inspired	inspired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
36	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
39	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
42	really	really	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
43	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	intimate	intimate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	46	punct	_	_
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	scenery	scenery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
52	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
54	for	for	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obl	_	_
56	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	57	det	_	_
57	ties	tie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obj	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	_
60	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
61	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	61	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | may | Wordsworth |  |  |  |  | a mere touch of gold leaf or a illuminated letter or a sun gleam on the mountain top *parataxis*; slight *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **illuminate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **feel** | can | the inspired poet |  |  |  |  | with scenery | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | poet | heart intimate |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Wordsworth | no ties of tradition or folk lore |  |  |  | for poet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tie=Patient |
| 7 | **touch** |  |  | gold leaf or a illuminated letter |  |  |  |  | nom touch «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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