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title: Flaxius breaks a lance for Jezebel and also for Herodias with gracef… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Flaxius breaks a lance for Jezebel and also for Herodias with graceful impartiality. Who acts: 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 7

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Flaxius breaks a lance for Jezebel and also for Herodias with graceful impartiality.

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**Who acts:** Flaxius · **What happens:** break · **To what, where:** lance

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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 (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:pg78673:22:7
# text = Flaxius breaks a lance for Jezebel and also for Herodias with graceful impartiality.
1	Flaxius	Flaxius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lance	lance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Jezebel	Jezebel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	also	also	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Herodias	Herodias	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	impartiality	impartiality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | present | Flaxius | a lance |  |  |  | for Jezebel and Herodias; with graceful impartiality | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent lance=Patient with impartiality=Instrument |

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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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