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title: The father ruling the wigwam was the Great Chief who lived at Caughn… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The father ruling the wigwam was the Great Chief who lived at Caughnawaga. Who acts: father, Great Chief. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 119

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The father ruling the wigwam was the Great Chief who lived at Caughnawaga.

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**Who acts:** father, Great Chief · **What happens:** rule, be, live · **To what, where:** wigwam, Great Chief, Caughnawaga

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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 (father, Great 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:pg78673:19:122
# text = The father ruling the wigwam was the Great Chief who lived at Caughnawaga.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	ruling	rule	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Caughnawaga	Caughnawaga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | gerund | the father *not said here* | the wigwam |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wigwam=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the father | the Great Chief |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | past | the Great Chief |  |  | Caughnawaga |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at caughnawaga=Location |

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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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