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title: Kulóskap is called the deceiver, not because he deceives or injures… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Kulóskap is called the deceiver, not because he deceives or injures man, but because he is clever enough to lead his enemies astray, the highest possible virtue to the early American mind. Who acts: Kulóskap. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 3, with its de
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 35

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Kulóskap is called the deceiver, not because he deceives or injures man, but because he is clever enough to lead his enemies astray, the highest possible virtue to the early American mind.

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**Who acts:** Kulóskap · **What happens:** call, not deceive, injure, be, lead · **To what, where:** Kulóskap, man, enemies · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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:pg78673:3:35
# text = Kulóskap is called the deceiver, not because he deceives or injures man, but because he is clever enough to lead his enemies astray, the highest possible virtue to the early American mind.
1	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	deceiver	deceiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	deceives	deceive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	injures	injure	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
20	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	astray	astray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	30	amod	_	_
29	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	virtue	virtue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | Kulóskap |  |  |  | the deceiver *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **deceive** | present | Kulóskap |  |  |  |  | the highest possible virtue to the early American mind *conj* | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **injure** | present | Kulóskap *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | Kulóskap |  |  |  |  | clever, enough *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **lead** | to-infinitive | Kulóskap *not said here* | Kulóskap's enemies |  |  |  | astray *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=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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