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title: The anecdote of a cannibalistic feast is highly interesting. — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The anecdote of a cannibalistic feast is highly interesting. Who acts: anecdote. 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 53

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The anecdote of a cannibalistic feast is highly interesting.

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**Who acts:** anecdote · **What happens:** be

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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 (anecdote), 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:pg78673:3:53
# text = The anecdote of a cannibalistic feast is highly interesting.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	anecdote	anecdote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	cannibalistic	cannibalistic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the anecdote of a cannibalistic feast |  |  |  |  | highly, interesting *property* | tree rules |

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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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