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title: Wabanaki mythology was really pure Shamanism, seeing a spirit in eve… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Wabanaki mythology was really pure Shamanism, seeing a spirit in every tree and waterfall, and a malignant or benevolent influence in many animals. Who acts: pure Shamanism. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 40

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Wabanaki mythology was really pure Shamanism, seeing a spirit in every tree and waterfall, and a malignant or benevolent influence in many animals.

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**Who acts:** pure Shamanism · **What happens:** be, see · **To what, where:** pure Shamanism, spirit, tree

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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 (pure Shamanism), 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:pg78673:3:40
# text = Wabanaki mythology was really pure Shamanism, seeing a spirit in every tree and waterfall, and a malignant or benevolent influence in many animals.
1	Wabanaki	Wabanaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	mythology	mythology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Shamanism	Shamanism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	waterfall	waterfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	malignant	malignant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	benevolent	benevolent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | pure Shamanism |  |  |  | Wabanaki mythology *nmod:desc*; a malignant influence in many animals *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | pure Shamanism *not said here* | a spirit |  | every tree and waterfall |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spirit=Stimulus |

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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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