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title: To the accompaniment of his drum he sang his _kʾtumasoointawagunul_… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: To the accompaniment of his drum he sang his _kʾtumasoointawagunul_ or dance songs, which was the signal for a general dance, followed by another feast. Who acts: CHIEF, dance songs. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 57

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To the accompaniment of his drum he sang his \_kʾtumasoointawagunul\_ or dance songs, which was the signal for a general dance, followed by another feast.

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**Who acts:** CHIEF, dance songs · **What happens:** sing, be, follow, accompany · **To what, where:** kʾtumasoointawagunul \_, accompaniment, signal, dance songs, drum

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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 (CHIEF, dance songs), 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:pg78673:20:58
# text = To the accompaniment of his drum he sang his _kʾtumasoointawagunul_ or dance songs, which was the signal for a general dance, followed by another feast.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	accompaniment	accompaniment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	kʾtumasoointawagunul	kʾtumasoointawagunul	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	signal	signal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | CHIEF | CHIEF's kʾtumasoointawagunul \_ or dance songs and the signal | the accompaniment of CHIEF's drum |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent \_=Topic to accompaniment=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | dance songs and the signal | the signal |  |  |  | for a general dance | tree rules |
| 3 | **follow** | participle |  | dance songs and the signal *not said here* |  |  |  | by another feast | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by feast=Location |
| 4 | **accompany** |  |  | CHIEF's drum |  |  |  |  | nom accompaniment «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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