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title: The Mohawks held a council by the fire Discussing how to torture bes… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mohawks held a council by the fire Discussing how to torture best the twain, So as to see their frenzy, and enjoy With gloating satisfaction every pain. Who acts: Mohawks, fire. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 134

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The Mohawks held a council by the fire Discussing how to torture best the twain, So as to see their frenzy, and enjoy With gloating satisfaction every pain.

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**Who acts:** Mohawks, fire · **What happens:** hold, discuss, torture, see, enjoy, gloat · **To what, where:** council, best twain, frenzy, satisfaction

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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 (Mohawks, fire), 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:pg78673:14:134
# text = The Mohawks held a council by the fire Discussing how to torture best the twain, So as to see their frenzy, and enjoy With gloating satisfaction every pain.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mohawks	mohawk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	Discussing	discuss	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	torture	torture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	twain	twain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	So	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	frenzy	frenzy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
26	With	with	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	gloating	gloat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
28	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past | the Mohawks | a council |  |  |  | by the fire | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent council=Theme by fire=Location |
| 2 | **discuss** *speech: other* | gerund | the fire *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **torture** | to-infinitive | the fire *not said here* | the best twain |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus twain=Experiencer |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | Mohawks's frenzy |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer frenzy=Stimulus |
| 5 | **enjoy** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **gloat** | gerund |  | satisfaction |  |  |  | every pain *obj* | tree rules |

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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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