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title: Like most barbaric races, these people were also fervent believers i… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Like most barbaric races, these people were also fervent believers in witchcraft, a superstition which still survives in the minds of many of the older Indians. Who acts: people, superstition. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree an
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 41

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Like most barbaric races, these people were also fervent believers in witchcraft, a superstition which still survives in the minds of many of the older Indians.

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**Who acts:** people, superstition · **What happens:** be, survive, mind · **To what, where:** fervent believers, witchcraft, minds, many older Indians

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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 (people, superstition), 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:pg78673:3:41
# text = Like most barbaric races, these people were also fervent believers in witchcraft, a superstition which still survives in the minds of many of the older Indians.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
3	barbaric	barbaric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	races	race	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	also	also	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	fervent	fervent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	believers	believer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	witchcraft	witchcraft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	superstition	superstition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	still	still	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	survives	survive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
28	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | this people | fervent believers |  | witchcraft |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **survive** | present | a superstition |  |  | the minds of the many older Indians | still |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mind=Location |
| 4 | **mind** |  |  | the many older Indians |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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