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title: On this occasion the Passamaquoddies were on a friendly visit to the… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: On this occasion the Passamaquoddies were on a friendly visit to the Micmacs, during which the sons of the Passamaquoddy and Micmac chiefs went shooting together. Who acts: Passamaquoddies, sons. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 54

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On this occasion the Passamaquoddies were on a friendly visit to the Micmacs, during which the sons of the Passamaquoddy and Micmac chiefs went shooting together.

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**Who acts:** Passamaquoddies, sons · **What happens:** be, go, shoot · **To what, where:** friendly visit

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Passamaquoddies, sons), 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:pg78673:2:54
# text = On this occasion the Passamaquoddies were on a friendly visit to the Micmacs, during which the sons of the Passamaquoddy and Micmac chiefs went shooting together.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Passamaquoddies	passamaquoddy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Micmacs	micmac	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
15	during	during	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Passamaquoddy	Passamaquoddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Micmac	Micmac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
26	shooting	shoot	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	xcomp	_	_
27	together	together	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Passamaquoddies |  |  | a friendly visit |  | on this occasion; to the Micmacs | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | the sons of the Passamaquoddy and Micmac |  |  |  | during a friendly visit | chiefs *nsubj* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **shoot** | gerund | the sons of the Passamaquoddy and Micmac *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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