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title: Picking out in this way the person of the Mohawk chief whose name wa… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Picking out in this way the person of the Mohawk chief whose name was Lox (‘Wolverine’) the watching braves shot him first, owing to which calamity the Mohawks were thrown into confusion and fled. Who acts: name, person, Lox. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, pa
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 79

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Picking out in this way the person of the Mohawk chief whose name was Lox (‘Wolverine’) the watching braves shot him first, owing to which calamity the Mohawks were thrown into confusion and fled.

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**Who acts:** name, person, Lox · **What happens:** pick out, be, watch, shoot, owe, throw · **To what, where:** way, Lox, Wolverine, Mohawks, confusion

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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 (name, person, Lox), 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:pg78673:2:79
# text = Picking out in this way the person of the Mohawk chief whose name was Lox (‘Wolverine’) the watching braves shot him first, owing to which calamity the Mohawks were thrown into confusion and fled.
1	Picking	pick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Mohawk	Mohawk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	Lox	Lox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Wolverine	Wolverine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	amod	_	_
23	braves	brave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	owing	owe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	31	det	_	_
31	calamity	calamity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Mohawks	mohawk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	parataxis	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick out** | gerund |  |  |  | this way |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Lox's name | Lox |  |  |  | Wolverine *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **watch** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **shoot** | past | the person of the Mohawk chief | Wolverine |  |  |  | the watching braves *nsubj*; first *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **owe** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **throw** | past · passive |  | the Mohawks |  |  |  | into confusion *result*; to which calamity | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into confusion=Result |
| 7 | **flee** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **name** |  | Lox |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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