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title: But all in vain, not a sparkle, Not a hint of anything burning, Not… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: But all in vain, not a sparkle, Not a hint of anything burning, Not even a tiny crackle Came from the silent wood. Who acts: anything. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 32

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But all in vain, not a sparkle, Not a hint of anything burning, Not even a tiny crackle Came from the silent wood.

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**Who acts:** anything · **What happens:** burn, hint · **To what, where:** tiny crackle Came

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anything), 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:pg78673:19:32
# text = But all in vain, not a sparkle, Not a hint of anything burning, Not even a tiny crackle Came from the silent wood.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sparkle	sparkle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hint	hint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	nmod	_	_
15	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	crackle	crackle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Came	came	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | gerund |  | a tiny crackle Came from the silent wood |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hint** |  | anything |  |  |  |  |  | nom hint «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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