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title: The Micmac chief, deceived by this stratagem and being afraid, summo… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The Micmac chief, deceived by this stratagem and being afraid, summoned his braves to council, and setting forth the disasters which had been caused by the long war advised a treaty of peace. Who acts: Micmac chief, long war, disasters. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 69

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The Micmac chief, deceived by this stratagem and being afraid, summoned his braves to council, and setting forth the disasters which had been caused by the long war advised a treaty of peace.

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**Who acts:** Micmac chief, long war, disasters · **What happens:** deceive, be, summon, set, cause, advise · **To what, where:** Micmac chief, braves, disasters, treaty

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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, long war, disasters), 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:pg78673:2:69
# text = The Micmac chief, deceived by this stratagem and being afraid, summoned his braves to council, and setting forth the disasters which had been caused by the long war advised a treaty of peace.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Micmac	Micmac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	deceived	deceive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	stratagem	stratagem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
11	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	summoned	summon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	braves	brave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
21	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	disasters	disaster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	advised	advise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	treaty	treaty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deceive** | participle |  | the Micmac chief *not said here* |  |  |  | by this stratagem | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **summon** | past | the Micmac chief | man's braves |  |  |  | to council | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brave=Recipient |
| 4 | **set** | gerund | the Micmac chief *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **cause** | past · perfect · passive | the long war | the disasters |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient |
| 6 | **advise** *speech: other* | past | the disasters | a treaty of peace |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent treaty=Recipient |

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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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