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title: Their duties, which were much more severe, were told them by the ins… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Their duties, which were much more severe, were told them by the installing chief. Who acts: duties, installing chief. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 100

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Their duties, which were much more severe, were told them by the installing chief.

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**Who acts:** duties, installing chief · **What happens:** be, tell, install · **To what, where:** duties, geptins · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (duties, installing chief), 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:pg78673:20:103
# text = Their duties, which were much more severe, were told them by the installing chief.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	duties	duty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	severe	severe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	installing	install	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | geptins's duties |  |  |  |  | severe *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive | the installing chief | geptins's duties | geptins *= geptin* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient they=Topic |
| 3 | **install** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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