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title: My own researches have been devoted more to linguistic and phonetic… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: My own researches have been devoted more to linguistic and phonetic investigations among the Canadian Abenakis than to comparative mythological study--in which, however, I feel a very deep interest. Who acts: I, My. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2, with
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 16

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My own researches have been devoted more to linguistic and phonetic investigations among the Canadian Abenakis than to comparative mythological study--in which, however, I feel a very deep interest.

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**Who acts:** I, My · **What happens:** devote, feel, research · **To what, where:** own researches, deep interest

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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, My), 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:pg78673:2:16
# text = My own researches have been devoted more to linguistic and phonetic investigations among the Canadian Abenakis than to comparative mythological study--in which, however, I feel a very deep interest.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	researches	research	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	devoted	devote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	_
9	linguistic	linguistic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	phonetic	phonetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	investigations	investigation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	among	among	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Abenakis	Abenaki	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	comparative	comparative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	mythological	mythological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	however	however	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	very	very	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **devote** | present · perfect · passive |  | My own researches |  |  |  | among the Canadian Abenakis; than comparative mythological study; more linguistic and phonetic investigations *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | present | I | a deep interest |  |  |  | which *obj*; however *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme interest=Eventuality |
| 3 | **research** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom research «act transitive»: poss=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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