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title: Brinton refers to the record or tally sticks of the Crees and Chippe… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Brinton refers to the record or tally sticks of the Crees and Chippeways as the “rude beginning of a system of mnemonic aids.” Who acts: Brinton. 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 94

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Brinton refers to the record or tally sticks of the Crees and Chippeways as the “rude beginning of a system of mnemonic aids.”

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**Who acts:** Brinton · **What happens:** refer, begin · **To what, where:** system

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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 (Brinton), 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:pg78673:2:94
# text = Brinton refers to the record or tally sticks of the Crees and Chippeways as the “rude beginning of a system of mnemonic aids.”
1	Brinton	Brinton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	refers	refer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	tally	tally	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Crees	cree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Chippeways	chippeway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	mnemonic	mnemonic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	aids	aid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refer** | present | Brinton |  |  |  | as the rude beginning of a system of mnemonic aids | to the record or tally sticks of the Crees and Chippeways | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to record=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **begin** *in a quote* |  |  | a system of mnemonic aids |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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