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title: Of all their slaughtered foes They first cut off the heads And stuck… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Of all their slaughtered foes They first cut off the heads And stuck them up on stakes All over that fair isle. Who acts: 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 9

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Of all their slaughtered foes They first cut off the heads And stuck them up on stakes All over that fair isle.

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**Who acts:** Abenakis · **What happens:** slaughter, cut off, stick up · **To what, where:** heads, Abenakis, stakes

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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), 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:pg78673:15:9
# text = Of all their slaughtered foes They first cut off the heads And stuck them up on stakes All over that fair isle.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	slaughtered	slaughter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	foes	foe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	advmod	_	_
8	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	stuck	stick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	stakes	stake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	All	all	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	isle	isle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slaughter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cut off** | past | Abenakis *= abenaki* | the heads |  |  |  | of Abenakis's slaughtered foes; first *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent head=Theme of foe=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **stick up** | past | Abenakis *= abenaki* *not said here* | Abenakis *= abenaki* |  | stakes |  | over that fair isle | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on stake=Destination |

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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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