--- title: Men, women and children immediately came to the hall with their birc… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics description: Men, women and children immediately came to the hall with their birch-bark dishes and sat about the game in a circle, while four or five men with long-handled dishes distributed the food, of which every person had a share. Who acts: Men, four men, person. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Men, four men, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78673:20:53 # text = Men, women and children immediately came to the hall with their birch-bark dishes and sat about the game in a circle, while four or five men with long-handled dishes distributed the food, of which every person had a share. 1 Men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 6 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 13 birch birch NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 bark bark NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 dishes dish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 19 about about ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 circle circle NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 26 while while SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 27 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 conj _ _ 30 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 handled handle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 amod _ _ 35 dishes dish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 36 distributed distribute VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 44 obl _ _ 42 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 43 det _ _ 43 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 44 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 share share NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | Men and women and children | | | the hall | | with men's bark dishes; immediately *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hall=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **sit** | past | Men and women and children *not said here* | | | a circle | | about the game | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about game=Location | | 3 | **handle** | participle | | | | | | | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **distribute** | past | four men with handled dishes | the food | | | | | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent food=Theme | | 5 | **have** | past | every person | a share | | | | which *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/20/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/20/54/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/20/)