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title: To him especially, as well as to the late Rev. Silas Rand of Nova Sc… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: To him especially, as well as to the late Rev. Silas Rand of Nova Scotia and to Miss Abbey Alger of Boston, do we owe some highly valuable additions to our knowledge of early eastern Algonkin thought. Who acts: we, knowledge. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, pa
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 15

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To him especially, as well as to the late Rev. Silas Rand of Nova Scotia and to Miss Abbey Alger of Boston, do we owe some highly valuable additions to our knowledge of early eastern Algonkin thought.

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**Who acts:** we, knowledge · **What happens:** owe, think · **To what, where:** valuable additions, knowledge

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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 (we, knowledge), 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:pg78673:2:15
# text = To him especially, as well as to the late Rev. Silas Rand of Nova Scotia and to Miss Abbey Alger of Boston, do we owe some highly valuable additions to our knowledge of early eastern Algonkin thought.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	reparandum	_	_
3	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	13	cc	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	fixed	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	Rev.	Rev.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:desc	_	_
12	Silas	Silas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Rand	Rand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Nova	Nova	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	Scotia	Scotia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
20	Abbey	Abbey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	Alger	Alger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Boston	Boston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	owe	owe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
29	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	additions	addition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	Algonkin	Algonkin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
39	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **owe** | present · do-support | we | some valuable additions |  |  |  | to our knowledge *goal*; Leland *reparandum* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent addition=Theme to knowledge=Goal |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | our knowledge *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of early eastern Algonkin | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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