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title: The fierce Abenakis Came stealthily and still And landed on the isle… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The fierce Abenakis Came stealthily and still And landed on the isle Where lay the Iroquois. Who acts: fierce Abenakis. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 5

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The fierce Abenakis Came stealthily and still And landed on the isle Where lay the Iroquois.

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**Who acts:** fierce Abenakis · **What happens:** come, land, lie · **To what, where:** isle, Iroquois

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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 (fierce Abenakis), 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:pg78673:15:5
# text = The fierce Abenakis Came stealthily and still And landed on the isle Where lay the Iroquois.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Abenakis	Abenakis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	Came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	stealthily	stealthily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	_
8	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	isle	isle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
14	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Iroquois	Iroquois	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the fierce Abenakis |  |  |  | still | stealthily *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **land** | past | the fierce Abenakis *not said here* |  |  | the isle |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on isle=Destination |
| 3 | **lie** | past |  | the Iroquois |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location iroquois=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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