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title: (2) A feast lasting two months was celebrated nightly; and (3) games… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: (2) A feast lasting two months was celebrated nightly; and (3) games of ball, canoe and foot races and other sports were carried on. Who acts: feast. 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 74

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(2) A feast lasting two months was celebrated nightly; and (3) games of ball, canoe and foot races and other sports were carried on.

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**Who acts:** feast · **What happens:** last, celebrate, carry on · **To what, where:** feast, 3 games

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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 (feast), 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:pg78673:2:74
# text = (2) A feast lasting two months was celebrated nightly; and (3) games of ball, canoe and foot races and other sports were carried on.
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	lasting	last	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	nightly	nightly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
17	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	races	race	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | gerund | a feast *not said here* |  |  |  | month |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **celebrate** | past · passive |  | a feast |  |  |  | 2 *discourse*; nightly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **carry on** | past · passive |  | 3 games of ball and canoe and foot races and other sports |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme |

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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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