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title: In later times it was customary to fire a gun at this point as a sig… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: In later times it was customary to fire a gun at this point as a signal that the bride was in the hall, whereupon the groom’s procession entered the hall in the same manner, when a second gun was fired. Who acts: party, signal, procession, groom. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonki
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 23

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In later times it was customary to fire a gun at this point as a signal that the bride was in the hall, whereupon the groom’s procession entered the hall in the same manner, when a second gun was fired.

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**Who acts:** party, signal, procession, groom · **What happens:** be, enter, fire, proceed · **To what, where:** customary, hall, same manner, second gun

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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 (party, signal, procession, groom), 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:pg78673:21:24
# text = In later times it was customary to fire a gun at this point as a signal that the bride was in the hall, whereupon the groom’s procession entered the hall in the same manner, when a second gun was fired.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	later	late	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	customary	customary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	acl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	signal	signal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	groom	groom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
38	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	43	mark	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	41	amod	_	_
41	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	fired	fire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | party | customary |  |  |  | fire *acl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | a signal |  |  | the hall |  | the bride *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **enter** | past | the groom's procession | the hall |  | the same manner |  | whereupon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination |
| 4 | **fire** | past · passive |  | a second gun |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **proceed** |  | the groom |  |  |  |  |  | nom procession «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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