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title: Mr. Leland was indeed the pioneer in examining the oral literature o… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. Leland was indeed the pioneer in examining the oral literature of the northeastern Algonkin tribes, a fact which few scholars seem to recognize. Who acts: Leland, pioneer, few scholars. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and t
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 14

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Mr. Leland was indeed the pioneer in examining the oral literature of the northeastern Algonkin tribes, a fact which few scholars seem to recognize.

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**Who acts:** Leland, pioneer, few scholars · **What happens:** be, examine, seem, recognize · **To what, where:** pioneer, oral literature, fact

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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 (Leland, pioneer, few scholars), 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:pg78673:2:14
# text = Mr. Leland was indeed the pioneer in examining the oral literature of the northeastern Algonkin tribes, a fact which few scholars seem to recognize.
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Leland	Leland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pioneer	pioneer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	examining	examine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	oral	oral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	northeastern	northeastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	Algonkin	Algonkin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
21	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	scholars	scholar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	recognize	recognize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Leland  Mr. | the pioneer and a fact |  |  |  | a fact *conj*; indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **examine** | gerund | the pioneer and a fact *not said here* | the oral literature of the northeastern Algonkin tribes |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent literature=Theme |
| 3 | **seem** | present | few scholars | a fact |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **recognize** | to-infinitive | few scholars *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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