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title: [3] Amerindian is a term invented and used by the Americanists of th… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: [3] Amerindian is a term invented and used by the Americanists of the Smithsonian Institution, to denote aboriginal American races and languages. Who acts: 3 Amerindian. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 6

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\[3\] Amerindian is a term invented and used by the Americanists of the Smithsonian Institution, to denote aboriginal American races and languages.

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**Who acts:** 3 Amerindian · **What happens:** be, invent, use, denote · **To what, where:** term, aboriginal American races

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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 (3 Amerindian), 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:pg78673:2:6
# text = [3] Amerindian is a term invented and used by the Americanists of the Smithsonian Institution, to denote aboriginal American races and languages.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Amerindian	amerindian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	invented	invent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Americanists	Americanist	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	obl:agent	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Smithsonian	Smithsonian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Institution	institution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	denote	denote	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
21	aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	races	race	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | 3 Amerindian | a term |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **invent** | participle |  | a term *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **use** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | the Americanists of the Smithsonian Institution *obl:agent* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **denote** | to-infinitive |  | aboriginal American races and languages |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot race=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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