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title: He himself was almost blazing-- The Indian Devil Lox. — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: He himself was almost blazing-- The Indian Devil Lox. Who acts: Lox. 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 35

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He himself was almost blazing-- The Indian Devil Lox.

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**Who acts:** Lox · **What happens:** blaze · **To what, where:** Indian Devil

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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 (Lox), 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:pg78673:19:35
# text = He himself was almost blazing-- The Indian Devil Lox.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	blazing	blaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Devil	Devil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	Lox	Lox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blaze** | past · progressive | Lox | the Indian Devil |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent devil=Theme |

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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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