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title: It was customary for these keepers of tribal history from time to ti… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: It was customary for these keepers of tribal history from time to time to instruct the younger members of their clan in the annals of the people. Who acts: version. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 89

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It was customary for these keepers of tribal history from time to time to instruct the younger members of their clan in the annals of the people.

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**Who acts:** version · **What happens:** be, instruct · **To what, where:** customary, younger members

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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 (version), 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:pg78673:2:89
# text = It was customary for these keepers of tribal history from time to time to instruct the younger members of their clan in the annals of the people.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	customary	customary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	keepers	keeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	tribal	tribal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	instruct	instruct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	clan	clan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	annals	annal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | version | customary |  |  |  | for this keepers of tribal history from time to time | tree rules |
| 2 | **instruct** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | version *not said here* | the younger members of members's clan in the annals of the people |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent member=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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