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title: These Algonkin clans themselves, however, seem to have been politica… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: These Algonkin clans themselves, however, seem to have been politically interdependent, as one clan could not elect a chief without the consent of all the others. Who acts: Algonkin clans, one clan. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 21, with its dependency 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 40

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These Algonkin clans themselves, however, seem to have been politically interdependent, as one clan could not elect a chief without the consent of all the others.

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**Who acts:** Algonkin clans, one clan · **What happens:** seem, be, not elect, consent · **To what, where:** chief, others

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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 (Algonkin clans, one clan), 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:pg78673:21:41
# text = These Algonkin clans themselves, however, seem to have been politically interdependent, as one clan could not elect a chief without the consent of all the others.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	Algonkin	Algonkin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	clans	clan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	however	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	cop	_	_
12	politically	politically	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	interdependent	interdependent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	clan	clan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	elect	elect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	without	without	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	consent	consent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | this Algonkin clans  clans |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive · perfect | this Algonkin clans  clans *not said here* |  |  |  |  | interdependent, politically *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **elect** | could | one clan | a chief |  |  |  | without the consent of all others | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Theme |
| 4 | **consent** |  |  | all others |  |  |  |  | nom consent «communication 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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