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title: The _geptins_ of the tribe and one of the friends of the bride then… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The _geptins_ of the tribe and one of the friends of the bride then conducted the girl to the bridegroom to dance with him. Who acts: geptins. 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 24

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The \_geptins\_ of the tribe and one of the friends of the bride then conducted the girl to the bridegroom to dance with him.

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**Who acts:** geptins · **What happens:** conduct, dance · **To what, where:** girl, bridegroom

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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 (geptins), 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:pg78673:21:25
# text = The _geptins_ of the tribe and one of the friends of the bride then conducted the girl to the bridegroom to dance with him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	geptins	geptin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conduct** | past | the geptins of the tribe | the girl | the bridegroom |  | then |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent girl=Theme to bridegroom=Destination |
| 2 | **dance** | to-infinitive | the geptins of the tribe *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with bridegroom | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «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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