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title: “The usual ceremonies for making peace were then observed, as follow… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: “The usual ceremonies for making peace were then observed, as follows: (1) a marriage was contracted between a brave of the challenging people and a maiden of the challenged people. Who acts: usual ceremonies. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2, with its d
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 72

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“The usual ceremonies for making peace were then observed, as follows: (1) a marriage was contracted between a brave of the challenging people and a maiden of the challenged people.

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**Who acts:** usual ceremonies · **What happens:** make, observe, follow, contract, challenge · **To what, where:** peace, usual ceremonies, marriage

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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 (usual ceremonies), 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:pg78673:2:72
# text = “The usual ceremonies for making peace were then observed, as follows: (1) a marriage was contracted between a brave of the challenging people and a maiden of the challenged people.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	observed	observe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	contracted	contract	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
22	between	between	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	challenging	challenging	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	challenged	challenge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
35	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *in a quote* | gerund | the usual ceremonies *not said here* | peace |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset peace=Product |
| 2 | **observe** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | the usual ceremonies |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **follow** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **contract** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | a marriage |  |  |  | 1 *obl*; brave *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **challenge** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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