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title: The herald read the marriage wampum in the presence of the girl and… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The herald read the marriage wampum in the presence of the girl and her father, formally stating that such and such a suitor sought his daughter’s hand in marriage. Who acts: herald, suitor. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 8

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The herald read the marriage wampum in the presence of the girl and her father, formally stating that such and such a suitor sought his daughter’s hand in marriage.

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**Who acts:** herald, suitor · **What happens:** read, state, seek · **To what, where:** marriage wampum, presence, hand, marriage

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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 (herald, suitor), 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:pg78673:21:9
# text = The herald read the marriage wampum in the presence of the girl and her father, formally stating that such and such a suitor sought his daughter’s hand in marriage.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	herald	herald	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	wampum	wampum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	formally	formally	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	stating	state	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	18	xcomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	24	det:predet	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	suitor	suitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | past | the herald | the marriage wampum |  | the presence of the girl and herald's father |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wampum=Topic |
| 2 | **state** *speech: other* | gerund | the herald *not said here* |  |  |  |  | formally, such *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **seek** | past | such suitor | father's daughter's hand |  | marriage |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in marriage=Location |

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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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