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title: Brinton adds: “In later days, instead of burning the marks upon the… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Brinton adds: “In later days, instead of burning the marks upon the stick, they were painted, the colors as well as the figures having certain conventional meanings. Who acts: Brinton, figures. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree a
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 96

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Brinton adds: “In later days, instead of burning the marks upon the stick, they were painted, the colors as well as the figures having certain conventional meanings.

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**Who acts:** Brinton, figures · **What happens:** add, burn, paint, have · **To what, where:** marks, mark, certain conventional meanings · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Brinton, figures), 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:pg78673:2:96
# text = Brinton adds: “In later days, instead of burning the marks upon the stick, they were painted, the colors as well as the figures having certain conventional meanings.
1	Brinton	Brinton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	adds	add	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	In	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	later	late	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	11	mark	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	28	cc	_	_
25	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	fixed	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
29	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
30	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	conventional	conventional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	meanings	meaning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | Brinton |  |  |  | day |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **burn** *in a quote* | gerund | Brinton *not said here* | the marks |  |  |  | upon the stick | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mark=Theme |
| 3 | **paint** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | mark |  |  |  | the colors *obl*; the figures *conj* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | gerund | the figures *not said here* | certain conventional meanings |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Patient |

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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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