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title: I obtained the Wampum Records at Bar Harbor, Me., in 1887, from the… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: I obtained the Wampum Records at Bar Harbor, Me., in 1887, from the Passamaquoddy Indian mentioned above by Mr. Leland, Mr. Louis Mitchell, who was at that time Indian member of the Maine Legislature. Who acts: I, Louis. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2,
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 100

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I obtained the Wampum Records at Bar Harbor, Me., in 1887, from the Passamaquoddy Indian mentioned above by Mr. Leland, Mr. Louis Mitchell, who was at that time Indian member of the Maine Legislature.

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**Who acts:** I, Louis · **What happens:** obtain, mention, be · **To what, where:** Wampum Records, Bar Harbor, time Indian member

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Louis), 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:pg78673:2:100
# text = I obtained the Wampum Records at Bar Harbor, Me., in 1887, from the Passamaquoddy Indian mentioned above by Mr. Leland, Mr. Louis Mitchell, who was at that time Indian member of the Maine Legislature.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Wampum	Wampum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Records	Record	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Bar	Bar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Harbor	Harbor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Me	Me	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1887	1887	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Passamaquoddy	Passamaquoddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
19	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
20	mentioned	mention	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
21	above	above	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:desc	_	_
24	Leland	Leland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:desc	_	_
27	Louis	Louis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
28	Mitchell	Mitchell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	nsubj	_	_
34	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
35	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	Maine	Maine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	Legislature	legislature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obtain** | past | I | the Wampum Records |  | Bar Harbor and Me |  | in 1887; the Passamaquoddy *parataxis* | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent record=Theme |
| 2 | **mention** *speech: other* | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by Leland  Mr.; above *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | Louis  Mr. |  |  | time Indian member |  | of the Maine Legislature; that *nsubj* | tree rules |

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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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