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title: [19] This is oddly like the declaration of the Beaver Killer in The… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: [19] This is oddly like the declaration of the Beaver Killer in The Hunting of the Snark, in fact, it is almost identical with it. Who acts: This, declaration. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 46

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\[19\] This is oddly like the declaration of the Beaver Killer in The Hunting of the Snark, in fact, it is almost identical with it.

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**Who acts:** This, declaration · **What happens:** be, hunt · **To what, where:** Hunting, Snark

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, declaration), 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:pg78673:6:46
# text = [19] This is oddly like the declaration of the Beaver Killer in The Hunting of the Snark, in fact, it is almost identical with it.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	19	19	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	oddly	oddly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	declaration	declaration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Beaver	Beaver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Killer	Killer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Snark	Snark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	identical	identical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | This |  |  | the Hunting of the Snark |  | like the declaration and fact; of the Beaver Killer; 19 *discourse*; fact *conj*; oddly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the declaration and fact |  |  |  |  | with fact; almost, identical *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hunt** |  |  | the Snark |  |  |  |  | nom hunting «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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