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title: Some hostile Mohawks fell upon that town, Killing the folk, all save… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Some hostile Mohawks fell upon that town, Killing the folk, all save the Priest and one, An Indian of many magic gifts. Who acts: hostile Mohawks. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 132

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Some hostile Mohawks fell upon that town, Killing the folk, all save the Priest and one, An Indian of many magic gifts.

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**Who acts:** hostile Mohawks · **What happens:** fall, kill, save · **To what, where:** town, folk, Priest

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hostile Mohawks), 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:pg78673:14:132
# text = Some hostile Mohawks fell upon that town, Killing the folk, all save the Priest and one, An Indian of many magic gifts.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	hostile	hostile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Mohawks	mohawk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Killing	kill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	advmod	_	_
14	save	save	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Priest	Priest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | some hostile Mohawks |  |  | that town |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon town=Location |
| 2 | **kill** | gerund | some hostile Mohawks *not said here* | the folk |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folk=Theme |
| 3 | **save** | present |  | the Priest |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=Theme |

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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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