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title: In Micmac Marten’s name Is Abistanēūch; he Was of the Elfin kind, On… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: In Micmac Marten’s name Is Abistanēūch; he Was of the Elfin kind, One who could change his form To what he pleased. Who acts: Micmac, Abistanēūch. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 95

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In Micmac Marten’s name Is Abistanēūch; he Was of the Elfin kind, One who could change his form To what he pleased.

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**Who acts:** Micmac, Abistanēūch · **What happens:** be, change, name, form · **To what, where:** Abistanēūch, name, form

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Micmac, Abistanēūch), 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:pg78673:10:95
# text = In Micmac Marten’s name Is Abistanēūch; he Was of the Elfin kind, One who could change his form To what he pleased.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	Micmac	Micmac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	Marten	Marten	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
5	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	Abistanēūch	Abistanēūch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
10	Was	Be	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Elfin	Elfin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	appos	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	To	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Abistanēūch |  | Micmac's name |  | the Elfin kind  Abistanēūch  Was *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **change** | could |  | Abistanēūch's form |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; what *obl* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Patient |
| 3 | **name** |  | Micmac |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **form** |  | Abistanēūch |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: 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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