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title: Truly all snakes are evil, But worst among them all Is the Rattlesna… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Truly all snakes are evil, But worst among them all Is the Rattlesnake their master. Who acts: snakes. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 85

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Truly all snakes are evil, But worst among them all Is the Rattlesnake their master.

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**Who acts:** snakes · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Rattlesnake

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snakes), 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:pg78673:4:85
# text = Truly all snakes are evil, But worst among them all Is the Rattlesnake their master.
1	Truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	conj	_	_
9	among	among	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
12	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Rattlesnake	Rattlesnake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | all snakes |  |  |  |  | evil, truly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | all snakes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | among Passamaquoddy | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | all Rattlesnake |  |  |  | RATTLESNAKES's master *appos* | 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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