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title: The Wabanaki nation consisted of five tribes: Passamaquoddies, Penob… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The Wabanaki nation consisted of five tribes: Passamaquoddies, Penobscots, Micmacs, Milicetes, and the tribe, now extinct, which formerly inhabited the banks of the Kennebec River. Who acts: Wabanaki nation. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2, with its dep
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 43

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The Wabanaki nation consisted of five tribes: Passamaquoddies, Penobscots, Micmacs, Milicetes, and the tribe, now extinct, which formerly inhabited the banks of the Kennebec River.

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**Who acts:** Wabanaki nation · **What happens:** consist, inhabit · **To what, where:** tribe, banks

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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 (Wabanaki nation), 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:pg78673:2:43
# text = The Wabanaki nation consisted of five tribes: Passamaquoddies, Penobscots, Micmacs, Milicetes, and the tribe, now extinct, which formerly inhabited the banks of the Kennebec River.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Wabanaki	Wabanaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	consisted	consist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Passamaquoddies	passamaquoddy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Penobscots	penobscot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Micmacs	micmac	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Milicetes	Milicetes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	extinct	extinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	formerly	formerly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Kennebec	Kennebec	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consist** | past | the Wabanaki nation | the tribe |  |  |  | of five tribes and Passamaquoddies and Penobscots and Micmacs and Milicetes | tree rules |
| 2 | **inhabit** | past |  | the banks of the Kennebec River |  |  |  | which *nsubj*; formerly *property* | tree rules |

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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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