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title: Then they gave them food Enough to give them life Upon the journey h… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they gave them food Enough to give them life Upon the journey home, In order that these maimed And harshly usèd foes Should tell the Iroquois In northern forest far That the Abenakis Were mightier than they. Who acts: Abenakis, maimed foes, That. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Al
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 13

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Then they gave them food Enough to give them life Upon the journey home, In order that these maimed And harshly usèd foes Should tell the Iroquois In northern forest far That the Abenakis Were mightier than they.

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**Who acts:** Abenakis, maimed foes, That · **What happens:** give, maim, tell, be · **To what, where:** food, prisoners, order, life, Abenakis, Iroquois · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Abenakis, maimed foes, That), 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:pg78673:15:13
# text = Then they gave them food Enough to give them life Upon the journey home, In order that these maimed And harshly usèd foes Should tell the Iroquois In northern forest far That the Abenakis Were mightier than they.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	Enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	home	home	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	In	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
19	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
20	maimed	maim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
21	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	harshly	harshly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	usèd	usèd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
24	foes	foe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	Should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Iroquois	Iroquois	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	In	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	37	advmod	_	_
33	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	nsubj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Abenakis	Abenaki	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
36	Were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	mightier	mighty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	ccomp	_	_
38	than	than	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Abenakis *= abenaki* | food | prisoners *= prisoner* | order | then | enough *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient food=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | to-infinitive | Abenakis *= abenaki* *not said here* | life | Abenakis *= abenaki* |  |  | upon the journey; home *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient life=Theme |
| 3 | **maim** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | should | this maimed foes | order *not said here* | the Iroquois | northern forest |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent iroquois=Recipient |
| 5 | **is** | past | That |  |  |  |  | than Abenakis *= abenaki*; far, mighty *property* | 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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