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title: These people still speak a characteristic Algonkin language which be… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: These people still speak a characteristic Algonkin language which bears more resemblance to the idiom of the Abenakis at St. Francis, near Pierreville, Quebec, than it does to that of the nearer Algonkin neighbors of the Penobscots, the Passamaquoddies. Who acts: people, idiom. A sentence of «Kulósk
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 104

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These people still speak a characteristic Algonkin language which bears more resemblance to the idiom of the Abenakis at St. Francis, near Pierreville, Quebec, than it does to that of the nearer Algonkin neighbors of the Penobscots, the Passamaquoddies.

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**Who acts:** people, idiom · **What happens:** speak, do · **To what, where:** characteristic Algonkin language · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (people, idiom), 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:pg78673:2:104
# text = These people still speak a characteristic Algonkin language which bears more resemblance to the idiom of the Abenakis at St. Francis, near Pierreville, Quebec, than it does to that of the nearer Algonkin neighbors of the Penobscots, the Passamaquoddies.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	characteristic	characteristic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	Algonkin	Algonkin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	10	det	_	_
10	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	resemblance	resemblance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	idiom	idiom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Abenakis	Abenaki	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:desc	_	_
21	Francis	Francis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	near	near	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Pierreville	Pierreville	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Quebec	Quebec	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	37	amod	_	_
36	Algonkin	Algonkin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	Penobscots	Penobscot	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	Passamaquoddies	passamaquoddy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | this people | a characteristic Algonkin language and which bears and more resemblance to the idiom of the Abenakis at Francis  St. and Pierreville and Quebec |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present | idiom |  |  |  |  | to that of the nearer Algonkin neighbors of the Penobscots and the Passamaquoddies | vn act-114-1 «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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