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title: [71] These canoes bore each a little flag in the bow as a sign that… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: [71] These canoes bore each a little flag in the bow as a sign that the mission on which the messengers came was important. Who acts: canoes, messengers, mission. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 35

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\[71\] These canoes bore each a little flag in the bow as a sign that the mission on which the messengers came was important.

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**Who acts:** canoes, messengers, mission · **What happens:** bear, come, be · **To what, where:** 71, mission, sign

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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 (canoes, messengers, mission), 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:pg78673:20:35
# text = [71] These canoes bore each a little flag in the bow as a sign that the mission on which the messengers came was important.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	71	71	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	canoes	canoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	mission	mission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	messengers	messenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past | this canoes | 71 |  |  |  | as a sign; each little flag *obj* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flag=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | past | the messengers |  |  | the mission |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on which=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | the mission | a sign *not said here* |  |  |  | important *property* | tree rules |

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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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