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title: These may seem strange coming from a land where there are no ophidia… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: These may seem strange coming from a land where there are no ophidians large enough to warrant such a superstition. Who acts: These. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 69

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These may seem strange coming from a land where there are no ophidians large enough to warrant such a superstition.

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**Who acts:** These · **What happens:** seem, come, warrant · **To what, where:** land, superstition

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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 (These), 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:pg78673:3:69
# text = These may seem strange coming from a land where there are no ophidians large enough to warrant such a superstition.
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	ophidians	ophidian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
14	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
15	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	warrant	warrant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
18	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	20	det:predet	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	superstition	superstition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | may | These |  |  |  |  | strange *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | These *not said here* |  |  | a land |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from land=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **warrant** | to-infinitive | These *not said here* | such superstition |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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