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title: Here they were greeted informally by the members of the tribe with h… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Here they were greeted informally by the members of the tribe with hand-shaking, etc. The evening of the first day was spent in entertaining the visitors. Who acts: members. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 41

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Here they were greeted informally by the members of the tribe with hand-shaking, etc. The evening of the first day was spent in entertaining the visitors.

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**Who acts:** members · **What happens:** greet, spend, entertain · **To what, where:** Indians, etc. evening, visitors

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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 (members), 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:pg78673:20:41
# text = Here they were greeted informally by the members of the tribe with hand-shaking, etc. The evening of the first day was spent in entertaining the visitors.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	greeted	greet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	informally	informally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:agent	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	shaking	shaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	etc.	etc.	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	19	compound	_	_
18	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	amod	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
26	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	entertaining	entertain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **greet** *speech: greet* | past · passive | the members of the tribe with hand shaking | Indians *= indian* |  | here | evening | informally *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **spend** | past · passive |  | the etc. evening *not said here* |  |  | day |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **entertain** | gerund |  | the visitors |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus visitor=Experiencer |

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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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