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title: The usual wedding ceremonies were then held, viz., a public feast, f… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The usual wedding ceremonies were then held, viz., a public feast, followed by dancing and singing, which always lasted at least a week. 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 126

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The usual wedding ceremonies were then held, viz., a public feast, followed by dancing and singing, which always lasted at least a week.

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**What happens:** hold, follow, dance, sing, last · **To what, where:** usual wedding ceremonies, public feast

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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: 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:pg78673:20:129
# text = The usual wedding ceremonies were then held, viz., a public feast, followed by dancing and singing, which always lasted at least a week.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	viz	viz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
17	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	24	advmod	_	_
24	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	nmod	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past · passive |  | the usual wedding ceremonies |  |  | then | a public feast *obl*; viz *obj* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme viz=Eventuality |
| 2 | **follow** | participle |  | a public feast *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dance** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **last** | past |  |  |  |  | week | which *nsubj*; always *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

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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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