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title: “The prose which is nearly all the book is a continued delight and s… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: “The prose which is nearly all the book is a continued delight and surprise in its humorous ideas, as well as in its more pitiful and thoughtful moods.” Who acts: prose. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 22, sentence 11

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“The prose which is nearly all the book is a continued delight and surprise in its humorous ideas, as well as in its more pitiful and thoughtful moods.”

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**Who acts:** prose · **What happens:** be, continue · **To what, where:** book, continued delight

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prose), 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:pg78673:22:11
# text = “The prose which is nearly all the book is a continued delight and surprise in its humorous ideas, as well as in its more pitiful and thoughtful moods.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	prose	prose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	humorous	humorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	30	cc	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	fixed	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
26	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	_
27	pitiful	pitiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
30	moods	mood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the prose | all book |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **continue** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the prose | a continued delight and surprise in prose's humorous ideas as prose's pitiful moods |  |  |  | surprise in prose's humorous ideas as prose's pitiful moods *conj* | tree rules |

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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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