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title: These people are by far the most interesting remnant of the Wabanaki… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: These people are by far the most interesting remnant of the Wabanaki, as they still retain an unusually extensive oral literature, embracing love poems, legends, and historical tales of considerable value. Who acts: people, considerable value. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin p
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 36

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These people are by far the most interesting remnant of the Wabanaki, as they still retain an unusually extensive oral literature, embracing love poems, legends, and historical tales of considerable value.

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**Who acts:** people, considerable value · **What happens:** be, retain, embrace, tell · **To what, where:** interesting remnant, extensive oral literature, love poems · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (people, considerable value), 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:pg78673:2:36
# text = These people are by far the most interesting remnant of the Wabanaki, as they still retain an unusually extensive oral literature, embracing love poems, legends, and historical tales of considerable value.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	8	advmod	_	_
8	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	remnant	remnant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Wabanaki	Wabanaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	retain	retain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	unusually	unusually	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	extensive	extensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	oral	oral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	embracing	embrace	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
25	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	considerable	considerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | this people | the interesting remnant |  |  |  | of the Wabanaki; historical tales of considerable value *nmod* | tree rules |
| 2 | **retain** | present | people | a extensive oral literature |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **embrace** | gerund | people *not said here* | love poems and legends |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **tell** |  | considerable value |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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