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title: In every such case the Micmac tales came through a Passamaquoddy med… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: In every such case the Micmac tales came through a Passamaquoddy medium, who, whenever he was ignorant of the proper Micmac word, used the corresponding Passamaquoddy expression, but elsewhere employed Micmac words. Who acts: Micmac tales, Passamaquoddy medium. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, an
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 81

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In every such case the Micmac tales came through a Passamaquoddy medium, who, whenever he was ignorant of the proper Micmac word, used the corresponding Passamaquoddy expression, but elsewhere employed Micmac words.

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**Who acts:** Micmac tales, Passamaquoddy medium · **What happens:** come, be, use, correspond, employ · **To what, where:** such case, corresponding Passamaquoddy expression, Micmac words

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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 (Micmac tales, Passamaquoddy medium), 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:pg78673:3:81
# text = In every such case the Micmac tales came through a Passamaquoddy medium, who, whenever he was ignorant of the proper Micmac word, used the corresponding Passamaquoddy expression, but elsewhere employed Micmac words.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
3	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Micmac	Micmac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Passamaquoddy	Passamaquoddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	medium	medium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	ignorant	ignorant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	Micmac	Micmac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	corresponding	correspond	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	amod	_	_
29	Passamaquoddy	Passamaquoddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	employed	employ	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
35	Micmac	Micmac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the Micmac tales |  |  | every such case |  | through a Passamaquoddy medium | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through medium=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | a Passamaquoddy medium |  |  |  |  | of the proper Micmac word; tale *nsubj*; ignorant, whenever *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | past | the Micmac tales *not said here* | the corresponding Passamaquoddy expression |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expression=Patient |
| 4 | **correspond** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **employ** | past | the Micmac tales *not said here* | Micmac words |  |  |  | elsewhere *property* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=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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