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title: Mosquitoes and midges Like gallant warriors Rushed on the squirrels,… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Mosquitoes and midges Like gallant warriors Rushed on the squirrels, With their sharp spears. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 84

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Mosquitoes and midges Like gallant warriors Rushed on the squirrels, With their sharp spears.

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**What happens:** rush · **To what, where:** gallant warriors, Mosquitoes

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg78673:16:84
# text = Mosquitoes and midges Like gallant warriors Rushed on the squirrels, With their sharp spears.
1	Mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	midges	midge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	gallant	gallant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	Rushed	rush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	With	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	spears	spear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | participle |  | gallant warriors *not said here* |  |  |  | on the squirrels | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on squirrel=Trajectory |

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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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