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title: Here, however, I avail myself of the assistance and authority of my… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Here, however, I avail myself of the assistance and authority of my _collaborateur_, J. Dyneley Prince, who as these pages witness, has seriously studied the eastern Algonkin dialects, especially the idiom of the Canadian Abenakis. Who acts: I, J.. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algon
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 1, sentence 131

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Here, however, I avail myself of the assistance and authority of my \_collaborateur\_, J. Dyneley Prince, who as these pages witness, has seriously studied the eastern Algonkin dialects, especially the idiom of the Canadian Abenakis.

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**Who acts:** I, J. · **What happens:** avail, study · **To what, where:** myself, eastern Algonkin dialects

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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, J.), 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:pg78673:1:132
# text = Here, however, I avail myself of the assistance and authority of my _collaborateur_, J. Dyneley Prince, who as these pages witness, has seriously studied the eastern Algonkin dialects, especially the idiom of the Canadian Abenakis.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	however	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	avail	avail	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	authority	authority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	collaborateur	collaborateur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	J.	J.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
20	Dyneley	Dyneley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
26	pages	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	compound	_	_
27	witness	witness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	seriously	seriously	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	studied	study	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	Algonkin	Algonkin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	dialects	dialect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	idiom	idiom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	Abenakis	Abenaki	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **avail** | present | I | myself |  | here |  | however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **study** | present · perfect | J. | the eastern Algonkin dialects |  |  |  | as this pages witness; seriously *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent dialect=Theme as witness=Value |

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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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