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title: Old Delaware, _meteú_, “a medicine doctor”; also a turkey cock, from… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Old Delaware, _meteú_, “a medicine doctor”; also a turkey cock, from the drumming of its wings. Who acts: wings. 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 176

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Old Delaware, \_meteú\_, “a medicine doctor”; also a turkey cock, from the drumming of its wings.

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**Who acts:** wings · **What happens:** drum · **To what, where:** Old Delaware

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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: who acts (wings), 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:pg78673:21:178
# text = Old Delaware, _meteú_, “a medicine doctor”; also a turkey cock, from the drumming of its wings.
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Delaware	delaware	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	meteú	meteú	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	also	also	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	turkey	turkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	drumming	drumming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **drum** |  | drumming's wings |  |  |  |  |  | nom drumming «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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