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title: Wâbab, “wampum” (P.); lit., “something white,” from the color of the… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Wâbab, “wampum” (P.); lit., “something white,” from the color of the shells. 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 288

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Wâbab, “wampum” (P.); lit., “something white,” from the color of the shells.

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**What happens:** lit · **To what, where:** color

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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:pg78673:21:291
# text = Wâbab, “wampum” (P.); lit., “something white,” from the color of the shells.
1	Wâbab	Wâbab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	wampum	wampum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	P.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	nsubj	_	_
15	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lit** | participle |  |  |  | the color of the shells |  | Wâbab *compound* | tree rules |

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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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