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title: “The whole is a literary entertainment of a rare and delicate kind. — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: “The whole is a literary entertainment of a rare and delicate kind. Who acts: whole. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 22, sentence 12

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“The whole is a literary entertainment of a rare and delicate kind.

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**Who acts:** whole · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** literary entertainment

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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 (whole), 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:pg78673:22:12
# text = “The whole is a literary entertainment of a rare and delicate kind.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	literary	literary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	entertainment	entertainment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 whole | a literary entertainment |  |  |  | of a rare kind | 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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