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title: It was the custom of chiefs to wear medallions of white wampum shell… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: It was the custom of chiefs to wear medallions of white wampum shells which were visible at a long distance, particularly in the moonlight. Who acts: ambush, white wampum shells. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 78

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It was the custom of chiefs to wear medallions of white wampum shells which were visible at a long distance, particularly in the moonlight.

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**Who acts:** ambush, white wampum shells · **What happens:** be, wear · **To what, where:** custom, medallions

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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 (ambush, white wampum shells), 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:pg78673:2:78
# text = It was the custom of chiefs to wear medallions of white wampum shells which were visible at a long distance, particularly in the moonlight.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
9	medallions	medallion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	wampum	wampum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	visible	visible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | ambush | the custom |  |  |  | of chiefs | tree rules |
| 2 | **wear** | to-infinitive |  | medallions of white wampum shells |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent medallion=Source |
| 3 | **is** | past | white wampum shells |  |  |  |  | at a long distance; the moonlight *conj*; visible *property* | 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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