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title: A wife of one of the other chiefs then placed a new deer-skin or bea… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: A wife of one of the other chiefs then placed a new deer-skin or bear-skin on the shoulders of the new chief as a symbol of his authority, after which the dance continued the whole night. Who acts: wife, dance. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 20, with its
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 97

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A wife of one of the other chiefs then placed a new deer-skin or bear-skin on the shoulders of the new chief as a symbol of his authority, after which the dance continued the whole night.

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**Who acts:** wife, dance · **What happens:** place, continue · **To what, where:** new deer skin, shoulders

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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 (wife, dance), 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:pg78673:20:100
# text = A wife of one of the other chiefs then placed a new deer-skin or bear-skin on the shoulders of the new chief as a symbol of his authority, after which the dance continued the whole night.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	symbol	symbol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	authority	authority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	after	after	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	obl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past | a wife of one of the other chiefs | a new deer skin or bear skin |  | the shoulders of the new chief | then | as a symbol of CHIEF's authority | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme on shoulder=Destination |
| 2 | **continue** | past | the dance |  |  |  | night | which *obl* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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