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title: Although not entirely ignorant of Passamaquoddy, Penobscot and Micma… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Although not entirely ignorant of Passamaquoddy, Penobscot and Micmac, I am not proficient therein and have chiefly based my work on very careful translations executed by others. Who acts: I, my. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 1, sentence 130

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Although not entirely ignorant of Passamaquoddy, Penobscot and Micmac, I am not proficient therein and have chiefly based my work on very careful translations executed by others.

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** not be, base, execute, work · **To what, where:** work, careful translations

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), 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:pg78673:1:131
# text = Although not entirely ignorant of Passamaquoddy, Penobscot and Micmac, I am not proficient therein and have chiefly based my work on very careful translations executed by others.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	ignorant	ignorant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Passamaquoddy	Passamaquoddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Penobscot	Penobscot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Micmac	Micmac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	proficient	proficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
16	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	chiefly	chiefly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	translations	translation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
27	executed	execute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | proficient, therein *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **base** | present · perfect | I *not said here* | my work |  | careful translations |  | chiefly *property* | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent work=Theme on translation=Source |
| 3 | **execute** | participle |  | careful translations *not said here* |  |  |  | by others | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **work** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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