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title: The lore of the Maine and eastern Canadian Wabanaki may be said to c… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The lore of the Maine and eastern Canadian Wabanaki may be said to center chiefly around the clown-like being known to the Passamaquoddies as Kulóskap and to the Penobscots as Klûskâbe. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 25

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The lore of the Maine and eastern Canadian Wabanaki may be said to center chiefly around the clown-like being known to the Passamaquoddies as Kulóskap and to the Penobscots as Klûskâbe.

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**What happens:** say, center, know · **To what, where:** lore, clown · **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: 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:pg78673:3:25
# text = The lore of the Maine and eastern Canadian Wabanaki may be said to center chiefly around the clown-like being known to the Passamaquoddies as Kulóskap and to the Penobscots as Klûskâbe.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Maine	Maine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
9	Wabanaki	Wabanaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	center	center	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	chiefly	chiefly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	around	around	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	clown	clown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Passamaquoddies	passamaquoddy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Penobscots	penobscot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Klûskâbe	Klûskâbe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | may · passive |  | the lore of the Maine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **center** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the clown |  | chiefly *property* | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **know** | gerund · passive |  | the clown *not said here* |  |  |  | to the Passamaquoddies as Kulóskap and the Penobscots; as Klûskâbe | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as klûskâbe=Attribute |

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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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