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title: The first portion of it was chanted to Mrs. W. Wallace Brown by an o… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The first portion of it was chanted to Mrs. W. Wallace Brown by an old Indian woman; the remainder was recovered from the Passamaquoddy Thomas Josephs or Tamaquah. Who acts: Mrs. W. Wallace. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 23

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The first portion of it was chanted to Mrs. W. Wallace Brown by an old Indian woman; the remainder was recovered from the Passamaquoddy Thomas Josephs or Tamaquah.

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**Who acts:** Mrs. W. Wallace · **What happens:** chant, recover · **To what, where:** first portion, remainder, Thomas Josephs

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mrs. W. Wallace), 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:pg78673:18:23
# text = The first portion of it was chanted to Mrs. W. Wallace Brown by an old Indian woman; the remainder was recovered from the Passamaquoddy Thomas Josephs or Tamaquah.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	chanted	chant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
10	W.	W.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
11	Wallace	Wallace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl:agent	_	_
12	Brown	Brown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	remainder	remainder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	recovered	recover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	Passamaquoddy	Passamaquoddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Thomas	Thomas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Josephs	joseph	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	Tamaquah	Tamaquah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chant** | past · passive | Mrs. W. Wallace | the first portion of antiquity |  |  |  | by a old Indian woman | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
| 2 | **recover** | past · passive |  | the remainder |  | the Thomas Josephs or Tamaquah |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from joseph=Source |

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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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