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title: Chief Montour is a highly intelligent and well educated Indian who t… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Chief Montour is a highly intelligent and well educated Indian who takes a deep interest in the language and lore of his tribe. Who acts: Chief. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 23

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Chief Montour is a highly intelligent and well educated Indian who takes a deep interest in the language and lore of his tribe.

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**Who acts:** Chief · **What happens:** be, take · **To what, where:** deep interest, language

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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 (Chief), 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:pg78673:3:23
# text = Chief Montour is a highly intelligent and well educated Indian who takes a deep interest in the language and lore of his tribe.
1	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Montour	Montour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
9	educated	educated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Chief |  |  |  |  | highly, intelligent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Chief *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | present |  | a deep interest |  | the language and lore of Moraviantown's tribe |  | who *nsubj* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent interest=Value in language=Location |

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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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