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title: The bitterest foes of the Wabanaki were undoubtedly the Megʾwek or M… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The bitterest foes of the Wabanaki were undoubtedly the Megʾwek or Mohawks, who on the slightest provocation would send bands to harry them and destroy their crops. Who acts: bitterest foes, Megʾwek Mohawks. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2, with its dep
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 44

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The bitterest foes of the Wabanaki were undoubtedly the Megʾwek or Mohawks, who on the slightest provocation would send bands to harry them and destroy their crops.

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**Who acts:** bitterest foes, Megʾwek Mohawks · **What happens:** be, send, harry, destroy · **To what, where:** Megʾwek Mohawks, bands, slightest provocation, crops

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bitterest foes, Megʾwek Mohawks), 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:pg78673:2:44
# text = The bitterest foes of the Wabanaki were undoubtedly the Megʾwek or Mohawks, who on the slightest provocation would send bands to harry them and destroy their crops.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bitterest	bitter	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	foes	foe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Wabanaki	Wabanaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
8	undoubtedly	undoubtedly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Megʾwek	Megʾwek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Mohawks	mohawk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	slightest	slight	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	provocation	provocation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
21	bands	band	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	harry	harry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the bitterest foes of the Wabanaki | the Megʾwek Mohawks |  |  |  | undoubtedly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** | would | the Megʾwek Mohawks | bands |  | the slightest provocation |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Theme |
| 3 | **harry** | to-infinitive | the Megʾwek Mohawks *not said here* | bands *= band* |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **destroy** | infinitive | the Megʾwek Mohawks *not said here* | foes's crops |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Patient |

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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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