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title: The Canadian Delawares are all Protestants, belonging, for the most… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The Canadian Delawares are all Protestants, belonging, for the most part, either to the Church of England or to the Moravians. Who acts: Canadian Delawares, Protestants. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 14

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The Canadian Delawares are all Protestants, belonging, for the most part, either to the Church of England or to the Moravians.

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**Who acts:** Canadian Delawares, Protestants · **What happens:** be, belong · **To what, where:** Protestants

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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 (Canadian Delawares, Protestants), 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:pg78673:3:14
# text = The Canadian Delawares are all Protestants, belonging, for the most part, either to the Church of England or to the Moravians.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Delawares	delaware	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	Protestants	Protestant	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc:preconj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Moravians	Moravian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Canadian Delawares | Protestants |  |  |  | the Church of England or the Moravians *appos*; all *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **belong** | gerund | Protestants *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the most part | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

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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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