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title: [61] This song clearly indicates “earth-eating” among the Indians. — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: [61] This song clearly indicates “earth-eating” among the Indians. Who acts: song. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 47

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\[61\] This song clearly indicates “earth-eating” among the Indians.

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**Who acts:** song · **What happens:** indicate, eat · **To what, where:** 61

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (song), 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:pg78673:16:47
# text = [61] This song clearly indicates “earth-eating” among the Indians.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	61	61	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	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	7	nsubj	_	_
6	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	indicates	indicate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	among	among	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **indicate** | present | this song |  |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **eat** *in a quote* | gerund | this song *not said here* |  |  |  |  | among the Indians; earth *compound* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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