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title: Every one understood this, which was the signal for the merrymakers… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Every one understood this, which was the signal for the merrymakers to approach and fall to. Who acts: one, merrymakers. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 20

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Every one understood this, which was the signal for the merrymakers to approach and fall to.

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**Who acts:** one, merrymakers · **What happens:** understand, be, approach, fall · **To what, where:** this, signal

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, merrymakers), 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:pg78673:21:21
# text = Every one understood this, which was the signal for the merrymakers to approach and fall to.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	signal	signal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	merrymakers	merrymaker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	approach	approach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **understand** | past | every one | this |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the signal |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **approach** | to-infinitive | the merrymakers |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fall** | infinitive | the merrymakers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «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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