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title: When it was over the Indians dispersed, but returned later to the ha… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: When it was over the Indians dispersed, but returned later to the hall when the messengers sang again their salutation songs in honor of their forefathers, in reply to which the chief of the tribe sang his song of greeting. Who acts: feast, Indians, messengers, chief. A sentence of «Kulóskap the mas
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 55

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When it was over the Indians dispersed, but returned later to the hall when the messengers sang again their salutation songs in honor of their forefathers, in reply to which the chief of the tribe sang his song of greeting.

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**Who acts:** feast, Indians, messengers, chief, greeting · **What happens:** be, disperse, return, sing, honor · **To what, where:** Indians, salutation songs, honor, song, reply, forefathers

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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 (feast, Indians, messengers, 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:pg78673:20:55
# text = When it was over the Indians dispersed, but returned later to the hall when the messengers sang again their salutation songs in honor of their forefathers, in reply to which the chief of the tribe sang his song of greeting.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	dispersed	disperse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	messengers	messenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	salutation	salutation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	forefathers	forefather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	obl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	greeting	greeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | feast |  |  | the Indians |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **disperse** | past | the Indians |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **return** | past | the Indians *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the hall *result*; late *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to hall=Result |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the messengers | messengers's salutation songs |  | honor of messengers's forefathers | again |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the chief of the tribe | CHIEF's song of greeting | reply |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent song=Topic to which=Recipient |
| 6 | **sing** |  | messengers *= messenger* |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **honor** |  |  | messengers's forefathers |  |  |  |  | nom honor «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **sing** |  | greeting |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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