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title: Rink states that this is not an unusual feat among the conjurers of… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Rink states that this is not an unusual feat among the conjurers of the Greenland Eskimo, who frequently sink into rocky and frozen ground “as if in snow.” Who acts: you, this, conjurers. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 48

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Rink states that this is not an unusual feat among the conjurers of the Greenland Eskimo, who frequently sink into rocky and frozen ground “as if in snow.”

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**Who acts:** you, this, conjurers · **What happens:** rink, not be, sink · **To what, where:** states, unusual feat, rocky ground

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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 (you, this, conjurers), 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:pg78673:3:48
# text = Rink states that this is not an unusual feat among the conjurers of the Greenland Eskimo, who frequently sink into rocky and frozen ground “as if in snow.”
1	Rink	rink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	unusual	unusual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	feat	feat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	xcomp	_	_
10	among	among	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	conjurers	conjurer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Eskimo	Eskimo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	sink	sink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	frozen	frozen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rink** | imperative | you *not said here* | states |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | this | a unusual feat |  |  |  | among the conjurers of the Greenland Eskimo | tree rules |
| 3 | **sink** | present | the conjurers of the Greenland Eskimo |  |  | rocky ground |  | snow *conj*; frequently *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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