--- title: I gladly take this opportunity to express my gratitude to my friend,… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics description: I gladly take this opportunity to express my gratitude to my friend, Mr. A. S. Gatschet of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, for a great deal of valuable advice and instruction given to me at different times during my American researches. Who acts: I, my. 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Gatschet of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, for a great deal of valuable advice and instruction given to me at different times during my American researches. **Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** take, express, give, deal, research · **To what, where:** opportunity, gratitude, friend, instruction, me, valuable advice This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78673:2:19 # text = I gladly take this opportunity to express my gratitude to my friend, Mr. A. S. Gatschet of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, for a great deal of valuable advice and instruction given to me at different times during my American researches. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 gladly gladly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 det _ _ 5 opportunity opportunity NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 express express VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl _ _ 8 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 gratitude gratitude NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:desc _ _ 15 A. A. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 16 S. S. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 Gatschet Gatschet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 Smithsonian Smithsonian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 Institution institution NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Washington Washington PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 valuable valuable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 instruction instruction NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 34 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ _ 37 at at ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 40 during during ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 42 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 researches research NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | present | I | this opportunity | | | | for a great deal of valuable advice and instruction; A. S. Gatschet of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington *obl*; gladly *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme for deal=Beneficiary | | 2 | **express** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | my gratitude | my friend | | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent gratitude=Theme to friend=Recipient | | 3 | **give** | participle | | instruction *not said here* | me | | during my American researches; time | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient | | 4 | **deal** | | | valuable advice and instruction | | | | | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient | | 5 | **research** | | my | | | | | | nom research «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/2/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/2/20/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/2/)