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title: CEREMONIES CUSTOMARY AT THE DEATH OF A CHIEF — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: CEREMONIES CUSTOMARY AT THE DEATH OF A CHIEF Who acts: 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 30

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CEREMONIES CUSTOMARY AT THE DEATH OF A CHIEF

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**Who acts:** CHIEF · **What happens:** die · **To what, where:** DEATH

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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 (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:pg78673:20:30
# text = CEREMONIES CUSTOMARY AT THE DEATH OF A CHIEF
1	CEREMONIES	ceremony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	compound	_	_
2	CUSTOMARY	customary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	AT	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	DEATH	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	CHIEF	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **die** |  | a CHIEF |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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