--- title: It is quite certain that many readers will welcome Flaxius as a phil… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics description: It is quite certain that many readers will welcome Flaxius as a philosopher seeking _la vraie verité_, a philosopher whose sympathy is very human, and who has in spite of all his erudition ... something of the naïve spontaneous pen of his Teutonic rival, Hans Breitmann.” Who acts: chapter, many read --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/22/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Kulóskap the master, and other Algonki…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/) / [Opening, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/22/) / 9 # Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 22, sentence 9 It is quite certain that many readers will welcome Flaxius as a philosopher seeking \_la vraie verité\_, a philosopher whose sympathy is very human, and who has in spite of all his erudition ... something of the naïve spontaneous pen of his Teutonic rival, Hans Breitmann.” **Who acts:** chapter, many readers, philosopher, sympathy · **What happens:** be, welcome, seek, have, spite · **To what, where:** Flaxius, la verité, spite, erudition 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 (chapter, many readers, philosopher, sympathy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78673:22:9 # text = It is quite certain that many readers will welcome Flaxius as a philosopher seeking _la vraie verité_, a philosopher whose sympathy is very human, and who has in spite of all his erudition ... something of the naïve spontaneous pen of his Teutonic rival, Hans Breitmann.” 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 quite quite ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 6 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 readers reader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 welcome welcome VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 10 Flaxius Flaxius PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 philosopher philosopher NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 seeking seek VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 15 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 la la X FW Foreign=Yes 18 compound _ _ 17 vraie vraie X FW Foreign=Yes 16 flat:foreign _ _ 18 verité verité NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 philosopher philosopher NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 23 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 sympathy sympathy NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 very very ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 parataxis _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 spite spite NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 37 det:predet _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 erudition erudition NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 38 ... ... PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 33 conj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 42 naïve naïve ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 43 spontaneous spontaneous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 pen pen NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 47 Teutonic teutonic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 rival rival NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 50 Hans Hans PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 appos _ _ 51 Breitmann Breitmann PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | chapter | | | | | a philosopher *appos*; certain *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **welcome** | future | many readers | Flaxius | | | | as a philosopher | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent flaxius=Theme as philosopher=Attribute | | 3 | **seek** | gerund | a philosopher *not said here* | la verité | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | sympathy | | | | | human *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | present | | | | spite of FLAXIUS's erudition something of the naïve spontaneous pen of FLAXIUS's Teutonic rival | | who *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **spite** | | | FLAXIUS's erudition | | | | | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/22/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/22/10/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/22/)