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title: [28] It is usual to give as a mere matter of politeness terms of con… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: [28] It is usual to give as a mere matter of politeness terms of consanguinity to persons in conversation. Who acts: 28, politeness terms. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 22

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\[28\] It is usual to give as a mere matter of politeness terms of consanguinity to persons in conversation.

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**Who acts:** 28, politeness terms · **What happens:** be, give, matter, term · **To what, where:** consanguinity

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (28, politeness terms), 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:pg78673:9:22
# text = [28] It is usual to give as a mere matter of politeness terms of consanguinity to persons in conversation.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	28	28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	mere	mere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	politeness	politeness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	consanguinity	consanguinity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | 28 |  |  |  |  | It *nsubj*; usual *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | to-infinitive | 28 *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a mere matter of politeness terms of consanguinity to persons in conversation | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **matter** |  | politeness terms of consanguinity to persons in conversation |  |  |  |  |  | nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **term** |  |  | consanguinity to persons in conversation |  |  |  |  | nom term «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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