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title: HOW THE MASTER SHOWED HIMSELF A GREAT SMOKER — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: HOW THE MASTER SHOWED HIMSELF A GREAT SMOKER Who acts: MASTER. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 82

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HOW THE MASTER SHOWED HIMSELF A GREAT SMOKER

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**Who acts:** MASTER · **What happens:** show · **To what, where:** GREAT SMOKER, Master

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MASTER), 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:pg78673:11:82
# text = HOW THE MASTER SHOWED HIMSELF A GREAT SMOKER
1	HOW	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	MASTER	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	SHOWED	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	HIMSELF	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	iobj	_	_
6	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	GREAT	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	SMOKER	smoker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past | the MASTER | a GREAT SMOKER | Master |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient smoker=Topic |

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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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