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title: Kwabîtsis, “little beaver” (P.); diminutive of _kwâbît_. — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Kwabîtsis, “little beaver” (P.); diminutive of _kwâbît_. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 143

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Kwabîtsis, “little beaver” (P.); diminutive of \_kwâbît\_.

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**To what, where:** Kwabîtsis

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg78673:21:145
# text = Kwabîtsis, “little beaver” (P.); diminutive of _kwâbît_.
1	Kwabîtsis	Kwabîtsis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	beaver	beaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	P.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	diminutive	diminutive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	kwâbît	kwâbît	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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