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title: Then the Abenakis Swooped down with horrid cries And then slew all t… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Abenakis Swooped down with horrid cries And then slew all their foes Save only two. Who acts: Abenakis, foes. 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 7

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Then the Abenakis Swooped down with horrid cries And then slew all their foes Save only two.

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**Who acts:** Abenakis, foes · **What happens:** swoop down, slay, save · **To what, where:** two

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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, foes), 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:pg78673:15:7
# text = Then the Abenakis Swooped down with horrid cries And then slew all their foes Save only two.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Abenakis	Abenaki	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	Swooped	swoop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	horrid	horrid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	foes	foe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	Save	save	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swoop down** | past | the Abenakis |  |  |  | then | with horrid cries; down *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **slay** | past | the Abenakis *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **save** | present | Abenakis's foes | two |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=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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