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title: It seems to have been customary in early times to burn a mark or rud… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: It seems to have been customary in early times to burn a mark or rude figure on a stick, suggestive of a sentence or idea. Who acts: It. 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 95

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It seems to have been customary in early times to burn a mark or rude figure on a stick, suggestive of a sentence or idea.

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**Who acts:** It · **What happens:** seem, be, burn · **To what, where:** customary, mark, stick

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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 (It), 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:pg78673:2:95
# text = It seems to have been customary in early times to burn a mark or rude figure on a stick, suggestive of a sentence or idea.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
6	customary	customary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	suggestive	suggestive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive · perfect |  | customary |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **burn** | to-infinitive |  | a mark or rude figure |  | a stick |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mark=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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