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title: “After this battle the Passamaquoddies were never again molested, bu… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: “After this battle the Passamaquoddies were never again molested, but the Penobscot tribe was still at war with the Milicetes and Mohawks and, in fact, was nearly destroyed three times by their ruthless foes.” Who acts: Penobscot tribe, ruthless foes. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Al
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 84

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“After this battle the Passamaquoddies were never again molested, but the Penobscot tribe was still at war with the Milicetes and Mohawks and, in fact, was nearly destroyed three times by their ruthless foes.”

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**Who acts:** Penobscot tribe, ruthless foes · **What happens:** not molest, be, destroy · **To what, where:** war, fact

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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 (Penobscot tribe, ruthless foes), 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:pg78673:2:84
# text = “After this battle the Passamaquoddies were never again molested, but the Penobscot tribe was still at war with the Milicetes and Mohawks and, in fact, was nearly destroyed three times by their ruthless foes.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Passamaquoddies	passamaquoddy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	molested	molest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Penobscot	Penobscot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	still	still	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Milicetes	Milicetes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	Mohawks	mohawk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
31	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
33	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl:unmarked	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	ruthless	ruthless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	foes	foe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **molest** *in a quote* | past · passive |  |  |  |  | after this battle and the Passamaquoddies; again |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the Penobscot tribe |  |  | war | still | with the Milicetes and Mohawks | tree rules |
| 3 | **destroy** *in a quote* | past · passive | Mohawks's ruthless foes | fact |  |  | time | nearly *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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