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title: The Delawares of Indian Territory have quite lost their identity as… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The Delawares of Indian Territory have quite lost their identity as a tribe of Indians, as they have been incorporated with the Cherokee Nation, by whose chief and council they are governed. Who acts: chief. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 3, with its dep
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 8

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The Delawares of Indian Territory have quite lost their identity as a tribe of Indians, as they have been incorporated with the Cherokee Nation, by whose chief and council they are governed.

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**Who acts:** chief · **What happens:** lose, incorporate, govern · **To what, where:** Delawares

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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 (chief), 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:pg78673:3:8
# text = The Delawares of Indian Territory have quite lost their identity as a tribe of Indians, as they have been incorporated with the Cherokee Nation, by whose chief and council they are governed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Delawares	delaware	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	identity	identity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	incorporated	incorporate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Cherokee	Cherokee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Nation	Nation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	governed	govern	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | present · perfect · passive |  | the Delawares of Indian Territory |  |  |  | as a tribe of Indians; Delawares's identity *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **incorporate** | present · perfect · passive | chief and council | Delawares *= delaware* |  |  |  | with the Cherokee Nation | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient with nation=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **govern** | present · passive | chief and council *not said here* | Delawares *= delaware* |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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