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title: But the more he bade them be peaceful The more they attacked the wit… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: But the more he bade them be peaceful The more they attacked the witches And drove them at last away. Who acts: Pûjinskwes, sisters. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 31

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But the more he bade them be peaceful The more they attacked the witches And drove them at last away.

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**Who acts:** Pûjinskwes, sisters · **What happens:** bade, be, attack, drive · **To what, where:** sisters, witches

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pûjinskwes, sisters), 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:pg78673:12:31
# text = But the more he bade them be peaceful The more they attacked the witches And drove them at last away.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
9	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	attacked	attack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	last	last	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bade** | past | Pûjinskwes | sisters *= sister* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | Pûjinskwes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | peaceful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **attack** | past | sisters *= sister* | the witches |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Patient |
| 4 | **drive** | past | sisters *= sister* *not said here* | sisters *= sister* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory |

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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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