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title: When the delegates from the other tribes, who had been appointed to… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: When the delegates from the other tribes, who had been appointed to elect the chief, had arrived and the salutation and welcome ceremonies had been performed, an assembly was called to elect the chief. Who acts: delegates. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 89

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When the delegates from the other tribes, who had been appointed to elect the chief, had arrived and the salutation and welcome ceremonies had been performed, an assembly was called to elect the chief.

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**Who acts:** delegates · **What happens:** appoint, elect, arrive, perform, call · **To what, where:** other tribes, chief, salutation, assembly · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (delegates), 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:pg78673:20:92
# text = When the delegates from the other tribes, who had been appointed to elect the chief, had arrived and the salutation and welcome ceremonies had been performed, an assembly was called to elect the chief.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	19	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	delegates	delegate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	elect	elect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	salutation	salutation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	welcome	welcome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	performed	perform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	assembly	assembly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	elect	elect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appoint** | past · perfect · passive |  | the other tribes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **elect** | to-infinitive |  | the chief |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Theme |
| 3 | **arrive** | past · perfect | the delegates from the other tribes |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **perform** | past · perfect · passive |  | the salutation and welcome ceremonies |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **call** | past · passive |  | a assembly |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **elect** | to-infinitive |  | the chief |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Theme |

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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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