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title: I am informed that a few members of the race linger on at New Westfi… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: I am informed that a few members of the race linger on at New Westfield, near Ottawa, Kansas, most of whom are under the charge of the Moravian Church. Who acts: few members, most. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 12

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I am informed that a few members of the race linger on at New Westfield, near Ottawa, Kansas, most of whom are under the charge of the Moravian Church.

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**Who acts:** few members, most · **What happens:** inform, linger, be · **To what, where:** I, New Westfield, charge · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few members, most), 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:pg78673:3:12
# text = I am informed that a few members of the race linger on at New Westfield, near Ottawa, Kansas, most of whom are under the charge of the Moravian Church.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	informed	inform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	linger	linger	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Westfield	Westfield	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	near	near	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Ottawa	Ottawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Kansas	Kansas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nmod	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	under	under	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Moravian	Moravian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inform** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **linger** | present | a few members of the race |  |  | New Westfield near Ottawa and Kansas |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on westfield=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | most of the charge |  |  | the charge |  | of the Moravian Church | 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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