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title: On this occasion, however, they were seen by a Passamaquoddy brave w… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: On this occasion, however, they were seen by a Passamaquoddy brave whose people lay in ambush for them. Who acts: people. 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 77

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On this occasion, however, they were seen by a Passamaquoddy brave whose people lay in ambush for them.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** see, lay · **To what, where:** ceremonies, occasion, ambush

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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 (people), 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:pg78673:2:77
# text = On this occasion, however, they were seen by a Passamaquoddy brave whose people lay in ambush for them.
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	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
12	Passamaquoddy	Passamaquoddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	_
14	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	ambush	ambush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · passive |  | ceremonies *= ceremony* |  | this occasion |  | however *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **lay** | present | people |  |  | ambush |  | for ceremonies *= ceremony* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for they=Beneficiary |

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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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