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title: The Micmac chief being a lover of fair play ordered his men to land… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The Micmac chief being a lover of fair play ordered his men to land on an island to await the coming of a messenger. Who acts: Micmac chief, lover. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 66

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The Micmac chief being a lover of fair play ordered his men to land on an island to await the coming of a messenger.

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**Who acts:** Micmac chief, lover · **What happens:** be, order, land, await, come · **To what, where:** lover, men, island

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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 (Micmac chief, lover), 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:pg78673:2:66
# text = The Micmac chief being a lover of fair play ordered his men to land on an island to await the coming of a messenger.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	Micmac	Micmac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	land	land	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	await	await	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | gerund | Micmac chief | the lover |  |  |  | of fair play | tree rules |
| 2 | **order** | past | the lover |  | lover's men |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **land** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the lover *not said here* |  |  | a island |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on island=Destination |
| 4 | **await** | to-infinitive | the lover *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | gerund | the lover *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of a messenger | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of messenger=Initial\_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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