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title: This term _Wabanaki_ or _Oñbanaki_ (Abenaki) means “land of the dawn… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: This term _Wabanaki_ or _Oñbanaki_ (Abenaki) means “land of the dawn or east,” and undoubtedly points to that section of country in which these people first established tribal relations. Who acts: term, people. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2, with its 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 30

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This term \_Wabanaki\_ or \_Oñbanaki\_ (Abenaki) means “land of the dawn or east,” and undoubtedly points to that section of country in which these people first established tribal relations.

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**Who acts:** term, people · **What happens:** mean, point, establish, section · **To what, where:** land, section, tribal relations, country

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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 (term, people), 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:pg78673:2:30
# text = This term _Wabanaki_ or _Oñbanaki_ (Abenaki) means “land of the dawn or east,” and undoubtedly points to that section of country in which these people first established tribal relations.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Wabanaki	Wabanaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Oñbanaki	Oñbanaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Abenaki	Abenaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	undoubtedly	undoubtedly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	points	point	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	section	section	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	obl	_	_
33	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
34	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
35	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	36	advmod	_	_
36	established	establish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
37	tribal	tribal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **mean** | present | this term or Oñbanaki | land of the dawn or east |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Topic |
| 2 | **point** | present | this term or Oñbanaki *not said here* |  | that section of country |  |  | undoubtedly *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to section=Recipient |
| 3 | **establish** | past | this people | tribal relations |  | that section of country |  | first *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relation=Patient |
| 4 | **section** |  |  | country |  |  |  |  | nom section «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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