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title: I became interested in Indian languages and lore at Bar Harbor, Me.,… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: I became interested in Indian languages and lore at Bar Harbor, Me., in 1887, chiefly through my able coadjutor. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 12

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I became interested in Indian languages and lore at Bar Harbor, Me., in 1887, chiefly through my able coadjutor.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** become · **To what, where:** 1887

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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), 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:pg78673:2:12
# text = I became interested in Indian languages and lore at Bar Harbor, Me., in 1887, chiefly through my able coadjutor.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	interested	interested	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Bar	Bar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Harbor	Harbor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Me	Me	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	1887	1887	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	chiefly	chiefly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	coadjutor	coadjutor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | I |  |  |  |  | in 1887 and my able coadjutor *result*; interested *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1887=Result |

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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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