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title: After the adoption of the wampum laws the marriage ceremony was much… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: After the adoption of the wampum laws the marriage ceremony was much more complicated. Who acts: marriage ceremony. 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 6

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After the adoption of the wampum laws the marriage ceremony was much more complicated.

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**Who acts:** marriage ceremony · **What happens:** be

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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 (marriage ceremony), 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:pg78673:21:7
# text = After the adoption of the wampum laws the marriage ceremony was much more complicated.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	adoption	adoption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	wampum	wampum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	much	much	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	complicated	complicated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the marriage ceremony |  |  |  | after the adoption | of the wampum laws; complicated *property* | tree rules |

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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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