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title: Words and phrases in italics are surrounded by underscores, _like th… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Words and phrases in italics are surrounded by underscores, _like this_. Who acts: underscores. 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 17

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Words and phrases in italics are surrounded by underscores, \_like this\_.

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**Who acts:** underscores · **What happens:** surround · **To what, where:** Words

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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 (underscores), 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:pg78673:22:18
# text = Words and phrases in italics are surrounded by underscores, _like this_.
1	Words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	phrases	phrase	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	italics	italic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	underscores	underscore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	_	_	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surround** | present · passive | underscores and \_ like this | Words in italics and phrases |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-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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