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title: They all agreed to heat two earthen pots On fiery coals unto the whi… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: They all agreed to heat two earthen pots On fiery coals unto the whitest heat; Then place these pots upon the head of each And watch them dance about till life was spent. Who acts: place, Mohawks. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14, with its dependency tr
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 135

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They all agreed to heat two earthen pots On fiery coals unto the whitest heat; Then place these pots upon the head of each And watch them dance about till life was spent.

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**Who acts:** place, Mohawks · **What happens:** agree, heat, pot, watch, dance, spend · **To what, where:** Mohawks, two earthen pots, life

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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 (place, 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:pg78673:14:135
# text = They all agreed to heat two earthen pots On fiery coals unto the whitest heat; Then place these pots upon the head of each And watch them dance about till life was spent.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	heat	heat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	earthen	earthen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	On	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	whitest	white	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	nmod	_	_
26	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	about	about	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | participle · passive |  | Mohawks *= mohawk* |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **heat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | two earthen pots |  |  |  | on fiery coals unto the whitest heat | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pot=Patient on coal=Instrument |
| 3 | **pot** |  | place |  |  |  |  | upon the head of each | tree rules |
| 4 | **watch** | infinitive |  | Mohawks *= mohawk* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **dance** | infinitive | Mohawks *= mohawk* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **spend** | past · passive |  | life |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |

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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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