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title: The Mohawks invariably treated their prisoners with the most mercile… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mohawks invariably treated their prisoners with the most merciless severity, showing no pity even to the women and children. Who acts: Mohawks. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 45

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The Mohawks invariably treated their prisoners with the most merciless severity, showing no pity even to the women and children.

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**Who acts:** Mohawks · **What happens:** treat, show · **To what, where:** prisoners, pity, women

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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 (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:pg78673:2:45
# text = The Mohawks invariably treated their prisoners with the most merciless severity, showing no pity even to the women and children.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mohawks	mohawk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	invariably	invariably	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	treated	treat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	10	advmod	_	_
10	merciless	merciless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	severity	severity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **treat** | past | the Mohawks | Mohawks's prisoners |  |  |  | with the merciless severity; invariably *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent prisoner=Recipient with severity=Theme |
| 2 | **show** | gerund | the Mohawks *not said here* | no pity | the women and children |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent pity=Topic to woman=Recipient |

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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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