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title: “The Micmacs although more numerous than their enemies, were inferio… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: “The Micmacs although more numerous than their enemies, were inferior warriors, so that the victory was always won (_sic! Who acts: Micmacs. 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 60

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“The Micmacs although more numerous than their enemies, were inferior warriors, so that the victory was always won (\_sic!

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**Who acts:** Micmacs · **What happens:** be, win · **To what, where:** inferior warriors, victory

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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 (Micmacs), 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:pg78673:2:60
# text = “The Micmacs although more numerous than their enemies, were inferior warriors, so that the victory was always won (_sic!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Micmacs	micmac	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
4	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	inferior	inferior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	21	mark	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	21	advmod	_	_
21	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	sic	sic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | the Micmacs | inferior warriors |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **win** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | the victory |  |  |  | always *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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