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title: The _geptins_ stood around it, each with a brush in his hand, with w… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The _geptins_ stood around it, each with a brush in his hand, with which they were instructed to brush off any particle of dust that might come upon it. Who acts: geptins, dust. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 102

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The \_geptins\_ stood around it, each with a brush in his hand, with which they were instructed to brush off any particle of dust that might come upon it.

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**Who acts:** geptins, dust · **What happens:** stand, instruct, brush off, come · **To what, where:** each, pole, geptins, particle

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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 (geptins, dust), 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:pg78673:20:105
# text = The _geptins_ stood around it, each with a brush in his hand, with which they were instructed to brush off any particle of dust that might come upon it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	geptins	geptin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	around	around	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	brush	brush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	instructed	instruct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	brush	brush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	off	off	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	particle	particle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the geptins | each with a brush |  | pole |  | in CHIEF's hand | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around it=Location |
| 2 | **instruct** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | geptins *= geptin* |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **brush off** | to-infinitive |  | any particle of dust |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent particle=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | might | dust |  |  | pole |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Location |

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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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