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title: This signified that it was their duty to defend and guard their chie… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: This signified that it was their duty to defend and guard their chief and that they should be obliged to spill their blood for him, in case of need and in defence of the tribe. Who acts: This, pole. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 20, with its dependency 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 103

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This signified that it was their duty to defend and guard their chief and that they should be obliged to spill their blood for him, in case of need and in defence of the tribe.

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**Who acts:** This, pole · **What happens:** signify, be, defend, guard, oblige, spill · **To what, where:** duty, chief, geptins, blood, case, tribe

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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 (This, pole), 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:pg78673:20:106
# text = This signified that it was their duty to defend and guard their chief and that they should be obliged to spill their blood for him, in case of need and in defence of the tribe.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	signified	signify	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	defend	defend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	guard	guard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	spill	spill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	defence	defence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **signify** | past | This |  |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is a** | past | pole | geptins's duty |  |  |  | geptins *= geptin* *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **defend** | to-infinitive | This *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **guard** | infinitive | This *not said here* | geptins's chief |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **oblige** | should · passive |  | geptins *= geptin* |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 6 | **spill** | to-infinitive |  | geptins's blood |  | case of need and defence of the tribe |  | for CHIEF | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Theme |
| 7 | **defend** |  |  | the tribe |  |  |  |  | nom defence «process transitive»: of=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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