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title: Among the former was a History of the Passamaquoddy Tribe, illustrat… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Among the former was a History of the Passamaquoddy Tribe, illustrated with numerous designs of the birchbark school of art, which I transferred to my friend the late Dr. D. G. Brinton as its most appropriate possessor. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Open
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 1, sentence 92

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Among the former was a History of the Passamaquoddy Tribe, illustrated with numerous designs of the birchbark school of art, which I transferred to my friend the late Dr. D. G. Brinton as its most appropriate possessor.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** be, illustrate, transfer, design · **To what, where:** numerous designs, friend, birchbark school

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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), 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:pg78673:1:93
# text = Among the former was a History of the Passamaquoddy Tribe, illustrated with numerous designs of the birchbark school of art, which I transferred to my friend the late Dr. D. G. Brinton as its most appropriate possessor.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	History	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Passamaquoddy	Passamaquoddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Tribe	Tribe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	illustrated	illustrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	designs	design	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	birchbark	birchbark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	transferred	transfer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
30	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
31	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:desc	_	_
32	D.	D.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
33	G.	G.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	_
34	Brinton	Brinton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
37	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	38	advmod	_	_
38	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	possessor	possessor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | among the former History; of the Passamaquoddy Tribe | tree rules |
| 2 | **illustrate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with numerous designs of the birchbark school of art | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with design=Theme |
| 3 | **transfer** | past | I | numerous designs of the birchbark school of art | my friend |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Theme to friend=Recipient |
| 4 | **design** |  |  | the birchbark school of art |  |  |  |  | nom design «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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