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title: The Passamaquoddies, however, appear never to have advanced beyond t… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The Passamaquoddies, however, appear never to have advanced beyond the use of wampum strings as mnemonic aids. Who acts: Passamaquoddies. 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 99

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The Passamaquoddies, however, appear never to have advanced beyond the use of wampum strings as mnemonic aids.

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**Who acts:** Passamaquoddies · **What happens:** appear, not advance, use · **To what, where:** wampum strings

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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 (Passamaquoddies), 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:pg78673:2:99
# text = The Passamaquoddies, however, appear never to have advanced beyond the use of wampum strings as mnemonic aids.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Passamaquoddies	passamaquoddy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	appear	appear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	advanced	advance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	wampum	wampum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	mnemonic	mnemonic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	aids	aid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | present | the Passamaquoddies |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **advance** | to-infinitive · perfect | the Passamaquoddies *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beyond the use of wampum strings as mnemonic aids | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **use** |  |  | wampum strings as mnemonic aids |  |  |  |  | nom use «act 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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