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title: Let then our labor in this work suffice merely to present to the Eng… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Let then our labor in this work suffice merely to present to the English-speaking public a few interesting and characteristic specimens of the traditions of a rapidly perishing race--a race which fifty years from now will have hardly a single living representative. Who acts: you, labor. A sentence o
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 88

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Let then our labor in this work suffice merely to present to the English-speaking public a few interesting and characteristic specimens of the traditions of a rapidly perishing race--a race which fifty years from now will have hardly a single living representative.

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**Who acts:** you, labor · **What happens:** let, suffice, present, speak, perish, have · **To what, where:** few interesting specimens, speaking public, race · **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 (you, labor), 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:pg78673:3:88
# text = Let then our labor in this work suffice merely to present to the English-speaking public a few interesting and characteristic specimens of the traditions of a rapidly perishing race--a race which fifty years from now will have hardly a single living representative.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
3	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	labor	labor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	suffice	suffice	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
9	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	present	present	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	public	public	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
19	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
20	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	characteristic	characteristic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	specimens	specimen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	perishing	perish	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	amod	_	_
31	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	obj	_	_
36	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl:unmarked	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	obl	_	_
40	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	acl:relcl	_	_
42	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
44	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
45	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	representative	representative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **suffice** | present | our labor in this work |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **present** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a few interesting specimens of the traditions of a perishing race | the speaking public |  |  | merely *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent specimen=Theme to public=Recipient |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **perish** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | rapidly *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **have** | future |  | a race |  |  | year | a single living representative *obj* | 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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