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title: The modern form of the word is _Alsigontekw_, which the Indians wron… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The modern form of the word is _Alsigontekw_, which the Indians wrongly connect with _als_, “shell,” and translate “river where shells abound.” Who acts: modern form, Indians, shells. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 60

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The modern form of the word is \_Alsigontekw\_, which the Indians wrongly connect with \_als\_, “shell,” and translate “river where shells abound.”

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**Who acts:** modern form, Indians, shells · **What happens:** be, connect, translate, abound, form · **To what, where:** Alsigontekw, river, word

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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 (modern form, Indians, shells), 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:pg78673:21:61
# text = The modern form of the word is _Alsigontekw_, which the Indians wrongly connect with _als_, “shell,” and translate “river where shells abound.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Alsigontekw	Alsigontekw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	wrongly	wrongly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	connect	connect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	als	al	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	translate	translate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	32	advmod	_	_
31	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	abound	abound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the modern form of the word | Alsigontekw |  |  |  | shell *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **connect** | present | the Indians | Alsigontekw |  |  |  | with als; wrongly *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent which=Patient with al=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **translate** | infinitive | the modern form of the word *not said here* | river |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient |
| 4 | **abound** *in a quote* | present | shells |  |  |  |  |  | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **form** |  |  | the word |  |  |  |  | nom form «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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