---
title: At the present day this famous tribe, whose three clans--the Minsi,… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: At the present day this famous tribe, whose three clans--the Minsi, the Unami, and the Unalachtigo--were once the dominant native race in Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and parts of New York State is represented by but a few bands living on scattered reservations, some in Indian Territory and s
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/3/7/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 7

# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 7

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
At the present day this famous tribe, whose three clans--the Minsi, the Unami, and the Unalachtigo--were once the dominant native race in Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and parts of New York State is represented by but a few bands living on scattered reservations, some in Indian Territory and some in Ontario, Canada.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** few bands · **What happens:** be, represent, live · **To what, where:** dominant native race, Delaware, scattered reservations

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (few bands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78673:3:7
# text = At the present day this famous tribe, whose three clans--the Minsi, the Unami, and the Unalachtigo--were once the dominant native race in Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and parts of New York State is represented by but a few bands living on scattered reservations, some in Indian Territory and some in Ontario, Canada.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	clans	clan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Minsi	Minsi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Unami	Unami	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Unalachtigo	Unalachtigo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
24	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	dominant	dominant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Delaware	Delaware	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	Jersey	Jersey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	Pennsylvania	Pennsylvania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	flat	_	_
41	York	York	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	State	State	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
43	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	represented	represent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
45	by	by	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
46	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	bands	band	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
50	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	49	acl	_	_
51	on	on	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	scattered	scatter	ADJ	VBN	_	53	amod	_	_
53	reservations	reservation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
55	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	44	conj	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	Territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
60	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	62	det	_	_
61	in	in	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	Ontario	Ontario	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
64	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	62	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	44	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the dominant native race |  | Delaware | day | parts of York State *nmod* | tree rules |
| 2 | **represent** | present · passive | a few bands | the dominant native race |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme |
| 3 | **live** | gerund | a few bands *not said here* |  |  | scattered reservations |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on reservation=Location |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/3/6/)
- next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/3/8/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/3/)