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title: The installing chief then addressed the people, telling them that an… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The installing chief then addressed the people, telling them that another “eldest boy” had been chosen, to whom they owed implicit obedience. Who acts: installing chief, people. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 93

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The installing chief then addressed the people, telling them that another “eldest boy” had been chosen, to whom they owed implicit obedience.

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**Who acts:** installing chief, people · **What happens:** install, address, tell, choose, owe · **To what, where:** people, eldest boy, implicit obedience · **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 (installing chief, people), 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:pg78673:20:96
# text = The installing chief then addressed the people, telling them that another “eldest boy” had been chosen, to whom they owed implicit obedience.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	installing	install	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	addressed	address	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
12	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	obl	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	owed	owe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	implicit	implicit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	obedience	obedience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **install** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **address** | past | the installing chief |  | the people |  | then | whom *obl* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Destination |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | the installing chief *not said here* |  | people |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 4 | **choose** | past · perfect · passive |  | another eldest boy |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **owe** | past | people | implicit obedience |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent obedience=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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