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title: The fact that a giant ghoul desires to eat the Delaware old man is,… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The fact that a giant ghoul desires to eat the Delaware old man is, however, a distinctly Algonkin feature, quite in accord with the ideas prevalent among the Passamaquoddies, Penobscots and Micmacs regarding the _Kiwaʿkw-Chînu_. Who acts: giant ghoul, fact, accord. A sentence of «Kulóskap the maste
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 60

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The fact that a giant ghoul desires to eat the Delaware old man is, however, a distinctly Algonkin feature, quite in accord with the ideas prevalent among the Passamaquoddies, Penobscots and Micmacs regarding the \_Kiwaʿkw-Chînu\_.

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**Who acts:** giant ghoul, fact, accord · **What happens:** desire, eat, be, regard · **To what, where:** fact, old man, distinctly Algonkin feature, Kiwaʿkw

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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 (giant ghoul, fact, accord), 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:pg78673:3:60
# text = The fact that a giant ghoul desires to eat the Delaware old man is, however, a distinctly Algonkin feature, quite in accord with the ideas prevalent among the Passamaquoddies, Penobscots and Micmacs regarding the _Kiwaʿkw-Chînu_.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ghoul	ghoul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	desires	desire	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	Delaware	delaware	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	however	however	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	distinctly	distinctly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	Algonkin	Algonkin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	feature	feature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	accord	accord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	compound	_	_
29	prevalent	prevalent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	among	among	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Passamaquoddies	passamaquoddy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	Penobscots	penobscot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	Micmacs	micmac	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
37	regarding	regard	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	Kiwaʿkw	Kiwaʿkw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	Chînu	Chînu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **desire** | present | a giant ghoul | the fact *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a giant ghoul *not said here* | the old man |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the fact | a distinctly Algonkin feature and accord with the ideas prevalent among the Passamaquoddies and Penobscots and Micmacs |  |  |  | accord with the ideas prevalent among the Passamaquoddies and Penobscots and Micmacs *conj*; however *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **regard** | gerund | accord with the ideas prevalent among the Passamaquoddies and Penobscots and Micmacs *not said here* | the Kiwaʿkw and Chînu |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiwaʿkw=Theme |

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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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