🌲 Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 7

When the young man had informed his parents of his desire to marry and the father had secured the consent of the relations and friends, an Indian was appointed to be the _Keloolwett_ or marriage herald, who, taking the string of wampum called the _Kelolwawei_, went to the wigwam of the girl’s father, generally accompanied by as many witnesses as cared to attend.

Who acts: young man, father, marriage herald, man · What happens: inform, marry, secure, appoint, be, take · To what, where: parents, consent, Indian, Keloolwett, string, wampum · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (young man, father, marriage herald, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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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