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title: Truly it is one of the daintiest, quaintest, most frolicsome, and at… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Truly it is one of the daintiest, quaintest, most frolicsome, and at the same time most spiritual of _jeux d’esprit_.”--The (London) _Free Lance_. 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 cl
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 22, sentence 13

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Truly it is one of the daintiest, quaintest, most frolicsome, and at the same time most spiritual of \_jeux d’esprit\_.”--The (London) \_Free Lance\_.

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

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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:pg78673:22:13
# text = Truly it is one of the daintiest, quaintest, most frolicsome, and at the same time most spiritual of _jeux d’esprit_.”--The (London) _Free Lance_.
1	Truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	daintiest	dainty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	quaintest	quaint	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	frolicsome	frolicsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
19	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	20	advmod	_	_
20	spiritual	spiritual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	_	_	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	jeux	jeux	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	d’esprit	d'esprit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
33	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	Lance	Lance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | whole | one |  |  |  | of the daintiest; spiritual d’esprit at the same time *appos*; the London *appos*; Free Lance *appos*; truly *property* | 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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