--- title: Any missionary to the Passamaquoddies, or to their kindred, the New… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics description: Any missionary to the Passamaquoddies, or to their kindred, the New Brunswick Milicetes, the Penobscots of Oldtown, Me., or to the Micmacs and Abenakis of Quebec, will admit that belief in the ancient Shamanistic sorcery among these Indians has by no means died out. Who acts: Brunswick Milicetes, be --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/3/42/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Kulóskap the master, and other Algonki…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/) / [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/3/) / 42 # Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 42 Any missionary to the Passamaquoddies, or to their kindred, the New Brunswick Milicetes, the Penobscots of Oldtown, Me., or to the Micmacs and Abenakis of Quebec, will admit that belief in the ancient Shamanistic sorcery among these Indians has by no means died out. **Who acts:** Brunswick Milicetes, belief, no · **What happens:** admit, have, mean, die out · **To what, where:** kindred, missionary · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Brunswick Milicetes, belief, no), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78673:3:42 # text = Any missionary to the Passamaquoddies, or to their kindred, the New Brunswick Milicetes, the Penobscots of Oldtown, Me., or to the Micmacs and Abenakis of Quebec, will admit that belief in the ancient Shamanistic sorcery among these Indians has by no means died out. 1 Any any DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 missionary missionary NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Passamaquoddies passamaquoddy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 kindred kindred ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 New New ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 Brunswick Brunswick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 Milicetes Milicetes PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Penobscots Penobscot PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Oldtown Oldtown PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 Me Me PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Micmacs micmac NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 Abenakis Abenaki PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Quebec Quebec PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 34 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 admit admit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 37 belief belief NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 40 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 41 Shamanistic shamanistic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 sorcery sorcery NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 43 among among ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 45 det _ _ 45 Indians Indian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 42 nmod _ _ 46 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 47 by by SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 48 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 49 nsubj _ _ 49 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 advcl _ _ 50 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 ccomp _ _ 51 out out ADP RP _ 50 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **admit** *speech: other* | future | the Brunswick Milicetes and the Penobscots of Oldtown and Me or the Micmacs and Abenakis of Quebec | | Passamaquoddies's kindred | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to kindred=Recipient | | 2 | **have** | present | belief in the ancient Shamanistic sorcery among this Indians | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | no | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **die out** | past | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/3/41/) - next →: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/3/43/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/3/)