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title: This _Wababi Agʾnodmâgon_, as I received it, is really an historical… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: This _Wababi Agʾnodmâgon_, as I received it, is really an historical account transmitted orally by elderly men whose memories had been especially trained for the purpose from early youth. Who acts: I, Wababi. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2, with its de
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 87

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This \_Wababi Agʾnodmâgon\_, as I received it, is really an historical account transmitted orally by elderly men whose memories had been especially trained for the purpose from early youth.

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**Who acts:** I, Wababi · **What happens:** receive, be, transmit, train · **To what, where:** ratification, historical account, memories

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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 (I, Wababi), 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:pg78673:2:87
# text = This _Wababi Agʾnodmâgon_, as I received it, is really an historical account transmitted orally by elderly men whose memories had been especially trained for the purpose from early youth.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Wababi	Wababi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
4	Agʾnodmâgon	Agʾnodmâgon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	really	really	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
17	transmitted	transmit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	orally	orally	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	elderly	elderly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	memories	memory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	aux:pass	_	_
26	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past | I | ratification |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Wababi  This | a historical account |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **transmit** | participle |  | a historical account *not said here* |  |  |  | by elderly men; orally *property* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **train** | past · perfect · passive |  | memories |  |  |  | for the purpose from early youth; especially *property* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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