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title: The tale of Flaxius and the Were-wolf is a brilliant narrative.... — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The tale of Flaxius and the Were-wolf is a brilliant narrative.... Who acts: tale, Flaxius. 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 6

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The tale of Flaxius and the Were-wolf is a brilliant narrative....

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**Who acts:** tale, Flaxius · **What happens:** be, tell · **To what, where:** brilliant narrative · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (tale, Flaxius), 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:pg78673:22:6
# text = The tale of Flaxius and the Were-wolf is a brilliant narrative....
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Flaxius	Flaxius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	Were	Were	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
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	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	....	....	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** | present | the tale of Flaxius and the Were wolf | a brilliant narrative |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** |  | Flaxius and the Were wolf |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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