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title: With merry whoop they started up the fires; Began at once to heat th… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: With merry whoop they started up the fires; Began at once to heat the torture pots. Who acts: 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 136

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With merry whoop they started up the fires; Began at once to heat the torture pots.

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**Who acts:** Mohawks · **What happens:** start up, heat · **To what, where:** fires, torture pots

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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), 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:pg78673:14:136
# text = With merry whoop they started up the fires; Began at once to heat the torture pots.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	whoop	whoop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Began	Began	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	heat	heat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	torture	torture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start up** | past | Mohawks *= mohawk* | the fires |  |  |  | with merry whoop; Began *obl* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality with whoop=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **heat** | to-infinitive | Mohawks *= mohawk* *not said here* | the torture pots |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pot=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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