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title: It was the duty of the young Indian man who wished to marry to infor… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: It was the duty of the young Indian man who wished to marry to inform his parents of his desire, stating the name of the maiden. Who acts: Rite, young Indian man, ceremony. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 120

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It was the duty of the young Indian man who wished to marry to inform his parents of his desire, stating the name of the maiden.

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**Who acts:** Rite, young Indian man, ceremony · **What happens:** be, wish, marry, inform, state, desire · **To what, where:** duty, parents, name, maiden

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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 (Rite, young Indian man, ceremony), 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:pg78673:20:123
# text = It was the duty of the young Indian man who wished to marry to inform his parents of his desire, stating the name of the maiden.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	inform	inform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	stating	state	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Rite | the duty |  |  |  | of the young Indian man | tree rules |
| 2 | **wish** | past | the young Indian man |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the young Indian man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **inform** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the young Indian man *not said here* |  | ceremony's parents of ceremony's desire |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient |
| 5 | **state** *speech: other* | gerund | the young Indian man *not said here* | the name of the maiden |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic |
| 6 | **desire** |  | ceremony |  |  |  |  |  | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **name** |  |  | the maiden |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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