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title: The following brief historical sketch, taken from the manuscripts of… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The following brief historical sketch, taken from the manuscripts of the Passamaquoddy Louis Mitchell, will give some idea of the conditions which prevailed among the Wabanaki previous to the coming of the Europeans. Who acts: brief historical sketch, idea. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and ot
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 41

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The following brief historical sketch, taken from the manuscripts of the Passamaquoddy Louis Mitchell, will give some idea of the conditions which prevailed among the Wabanaki previous to the coming of the Europeans.

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**Who acts:** brief historical sketch, idea · **What happens:** follow, take, give, prevail, come · **To what, where:** brief historical sketch, manuscripts, idea, Wabanaki previous

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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 (brief historical sketch, idea), 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:pg78673:2:41
# text = The following brief historical sketch, taken from the manuscripts of the Passamaquoddy Louis Mitchell, will give some idea of the conditions which prevailed among the Wabanaki previous to the coming of the Europeans.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	case	_	_
3	brief	brief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sketch	sketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	manuscripts	manuscript	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Passamaquoddy	Passamaquoddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Louis	Louis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	Mitchell	Mitchell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	prevailed	prevail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
26	among	among	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Wabanaki	Wabanaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	previous	previous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obl	_	_
30	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Europeans	European	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | participle |  | the brief historical sketch *not said here* |  | the manuscripts of the Passamaquoddy Louis |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from manuscript=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **give** | future | the brief historical sketch | some idea of the conditions |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Theme |
| 4 | **prevail** | past | some idea of the conditions |  |  | the Wabanaki previous |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among previous=Location |
| 5 | **come** | gerund | some idea of the conditions *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the Europeans | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of european=Initial\_Location |

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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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