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title: The Indians mourned for him one year, after which the _Pwutwusimwuk_… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The Indians mourned for him one year, after which the _Pwutwusimwuk_ or leading men were summoned by the tribe to elect a new chief. Who acts: Indians, tribe. 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 32

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The Indians mourned for him one year, after which the \_Pwutwusimwuk\_ or leading men were summoned by the tribe to elect a new chief.

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**Who acts:** Indians, tribe · **What happens:** mourn, lead, summon, elect · **To what, where:** Pwutwusimwuk, new chief

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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 (Indians, tribe), 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:pg78673:20:32
# text = The Indians mourned for him one year, after which the _Pwutwusimwuk_ or leading men were summoned by the tribe to elect a new chief.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	mourned	mourn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Pwutwusimwuk	Pwutwusimwuk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	summoned	summon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	elect	elect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mourn** | past | the Indians |  |  |  | year | for CHIEF | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for he=Attribute |
| 2 | **lead** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 3 | **summon** | past · passive | the tribe | the Pwutwusimwuk or leading men |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **elect** | to-infinitive | the tribe *not said here* | a new chief |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=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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