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title: A priest of God came to an Indian town And settled there to teach th… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: A priest of God came to an Indian town And settled there to teach the people truth, Which some received and others spurned with scorn. Who acts: priest, people truth, others. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 131

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A priest of God came to an Indian town And settled there to teach the people truth, Which some received and others spurned with scorn.

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**Who acts:** priest, people truth, others · **What happens:** come, settle, teach, receive, spurn · **To what, where:** Indian town, people truth

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (priest, people truth, others), 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:pg78673:14:131
# text = A priest of God came to an Indian town And settled there to teach the people truth, Which some received and others spurned with scorn.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	compound	_	_
17	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	nsubj	_	_
21	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	spurned	spurn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	scorn	scorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a priest of God |  |  | a Indian town |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **settle** | past | a priest of God *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | a priest of God *not said here* | the people truth |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient |
| 4 | **receive** | past | the people truth |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **spurn** | past | others |  |  |  |  | with scorn | 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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