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title: The tendency of Kulóskap, in spite of his name, was essentially bene… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The tendency of Kulóskap, in spite of his name, was essentially benevolent. Who acts: tendency, Kulóskap. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 30

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The tendency of Kulóskap, in spite of his name, was essentially benevolent.

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**Who acts:** tendency, Kulóskap · **What happens:** be, tend, spite, name · **To what, where:** name

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tendency, Kulóskap), 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:pg78673:3:30
# text = The tendency of Kulóskap, in spite of his name, was essentially benevolent.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tendency	tendency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	essentially	essentially	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	benevolent	benevolent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the tendency of Kulóskap and spite of Kulóskap's name |  |  |  |  | benevolent, essentially *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tend** |  | Kulóskap |  |  |  |  |  | nom tendency «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
| 3 | **spite** |  |  | Kulóskap's name |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **name** |  | Kulóskap |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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