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title: The northern Algonkin tribes were very probably in a loose federatio… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The northern Algonkin tribes were very probably in a loose federation with the Iroquois merely for purposes of intertribal arbitration. Who acts: northern Algonkin tribes, intertribal arbitration. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 21, with its dependency tr
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 39

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The northern Algonkin tribes were very probably in a loose federation with the Iroquois merely for purposes of intertribal arbitration.

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**Who acts:** northern Algonkin tribes, intertribal arbitration · **What happens:** be, purpose · **To what, where:** loose federation

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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 (northern Algonkin tribes, intertribal arbitration), 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:pg78673:21:40
# text = The northern Algonkin tribes were very probably in a loose federation with the Iroquois merely for purposes of intertribal arbitration.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Algonkin	Algonkin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	federation	federation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Iroquois	Iroquois	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	purposes	purpose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	intertribal	intertribal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	arbitration	arbitration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the northern Algonkin tribes |  |  | a loose federation |  | with the Iroquois; for purposes of intertribal arbitration; merely, probably *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **purpose** |  | intertribal arbitration |  |  |  |  |  | nom purpose «cognition 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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