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title: The couple were then addressed by an aged man (_nojimikokemit_) on t… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The couple were then addressed by an aged man (_nojimikokemit_) on the duties of marriage. Who acts: aged man. 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 26

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The couple were then addressed by an aged man (\_nojimikokemit\_) on the duties of marriage.

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**Who acts:** aged man · **What happens:** address · **To what, where:** couple, duties

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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 (aged man), 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:pg78673:21:27
# text = The couple were then addressed by an aged man (_nojimikokemit_) on the duties of marriage.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	addressed	address	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	aged	aged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	nojimikokemit	nojimikokemit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	duties	duty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **address** | past · passive | a aged man | the couple |  | the duties of marriage | then |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Destination |

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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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