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title: When the chief of a tribe died, his flag-pole was cut down and burnt… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: When the chief of a tribe died, his flag-pole was cut down and burnt, and his war-like appurtenances, bows and arrows, tomahawk and flag, were buried with him. Who acts: chief. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 31

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When the chief of a tribe died, his flag-pole was cut down and burnt, and his war-like appurtenances, bows and arrows, tomahawk and flag, were buried with him.

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**Who acts:** chief · **What happens:** die, cut down, bury · **To what, where:** like appurtenances, flag pole

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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:pg78673:20:31
# text = When the chief of a tribe died, his flag-pole was cut down and burnt, and his war-like appurtenances, bows and arrows, tomahawk and flag, were buried with him.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
15	down	down	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	burnt	burnt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
21	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	appurtenances	appurtenance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	bows	bow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	tomahawk	tomahawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | the chief of a tribe | CHIEF's like appurtenances and bows and arrows and tomahawk and flag |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **cut down** | past · passive |  | CHIEF's flag pole |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **bury** | past · passive | the chief of a tribe *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with CHIEF | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP» |

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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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