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title: [53] This song is very interesting, as indicating a survival of the… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: [53] This song is very interesting, as indicating a survival of the old Indian faith in their magicians as superior to Christian power. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 149

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\[53\] This song is very interesting, as indicating a survival of the old Indian faith in their magicians as superior to Christian power.

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**What happens:** be, indicate, survive · **To what, where:** survival, old Indian faith

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg78673:14:149
# text = [53] This song is very interesting, as indicating a survival of the old Indian faith in their magicians as superior to Christian power.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	53	53	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	indicating	indicate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	survival	survival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	magicians	magician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	superior	superior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | 53  this song *obl*; interesting *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **indicate** | gerund |  | a survival of the old Indian faith in families's magicians |  |  |  | as superior to Christian power | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot survival=Topic |
| 3 | **survive** |  |  | the old Indian faith in families's magicians |  |  |  |  | nom survival «state 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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