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title: The name Passamaquoddy is a purely local term, meaning “spearers of… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The name Passamaquoddy is a purely local term, meaning “spearers of pollock fish” (_peskátum_). Who acts: name, local term. 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 34

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The name Passamaquoddy is a purely local term, meaning “spearers of pollock fish” (\_peskátum\_).

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**Who acts:** name, local term · **What happens:** be, mean · **To what, where:** local term, spearers

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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 (name, local term), 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:pg78673:2:34
# text = The name Passamaquoddy is a purely local term, meaning “spearers of pollock fish” (_peskátum_).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	Passamaquoddy	Passamaquoddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	purely	purely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	spearers	spearer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	pollock	pollock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	peskátum	peskátum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the name | a local term |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | gerund | a local term *not said here* | spearers of pollock fish and peskátum |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spearer=Topic |

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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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