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title: For seven days, from morning till night, a strict silence was observ… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 104

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For seven days, from morning till night, a strict silence was observed, during which each representative deliberated on the speech he should make and tried to discover the best means for checking the war.

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**Who acts:** representative · **What happens:** observe, deliberate, make, try, discover, mean · **To what, where:** strict silence, representative, best, war

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (representative), 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:pg78673:19:106
# text = For seven days, from morning till night, a strict silence was observed, during which each representative deliberated on the speech he should make and tried to discover the best means for checking the war.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	till	till	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	strict	strict	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	observed	observe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
16	during	during	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	representative	representative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
20	deliberated	deliberate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	discover	discover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	30	obj	_	_
33	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
34	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	checking	check	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **observe** | past · passive |  | a strict silence |  |  | day |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **deliberate** | participle |  | each representative *not said here* |  |  |  | on the speech | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on speech=Topic |
| 3 | **make** | should | each representative |  |  |  |  | which *obl*; speech *nsubj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **try** | past | each representative *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **discover** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | each representative *not said here* | the best |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Topic |
| 6 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **check** | gerund |  | the war |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=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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