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title: They were the enemies Of Kulóskap the Man, Their only enemy, And so… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: They were the enemies Of Kulóskap the Man, Their only enemy, And so they sang to her: “Hasten and throw him off, And drown him in the sea.” Who acts: songs. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 116

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They were the enemies Of Kulóskap the Man, Their only enemy, And so they sang to her: “Hasten and throw him off, And drown him in the sea.”

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**Who acts:** songs · **What happens:** be, sing, hasten, throw off, drown · **To what, where:** enemies, shoal, KULÓSKAP, sea · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (songs), 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:pg78673:10:116
# text = They were the enemies Of Kulóskap the Man, Their only enemy, And so they sang to her: “Hasten and throw him off, And drown him in the sea.”
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Hasten	hasten	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	off	off	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	drown	drown	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | songs *= song* | the enemies |  |  |  | of Kulóskap | tree rules |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | songs *= song* |  | shoal |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient |
| 3 | **hasten** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **throw off** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | KULÓSKAP *= kulóskap* |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **drown** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | KULÓSKAP *= kulóskap* |  | the sea |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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