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title: For example, the Fijis and the New Zealand Maoris ate their enemies… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: For example, the Fijis and the New Zealand Maoris ate their enemies with the same object in view, viz., to become as brave as the fallen foe had been. Who acts: Fijis. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 56

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For example, the Fijis and the New Zealand Maoris ate their enemies with the same object in view, viz., to become as brave as the fallen foe had been.

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**Who acts:** Fijis · **What happens:** eat, become, be, fall · **To what, where:** enemies

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fijis), 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:pg78673:3:56
# text = For example, the Fijis and the New Zealand Maoris ate their enemies with the same object in view, viz., to become as brave as the fallen foe had been.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Fijis	Fiji	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
9	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Maoris	Maoris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	viz	viz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
31	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | the Fijis and the Zealand Maoris | Fijis's enemies |  |  |  | for example; with the same object in view | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Patient |
| 2 | **become** | to-infinitive | the Fijis and the Zealand Maoris *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | participle | the Fijis and the Zealand Maoris *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the fallen foe; brave *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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