Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 84

“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 · What happens: not molest, be, destroy · To what, where: war, fact

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.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 molested	punct
2	After	after	ADP	_	4 battle	case
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 battle	det
4	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 molested	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Passamaquoddies	det
6	Passamaquoddies	passamaquoddy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 battle	conj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 molested	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 molested	advmod
9	again	again	ADV	_	10 molested	advmod
10	molested	molest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 war	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 war	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tribe	det
14	Penobscot	Penobscot	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 tribe	compound
15	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 war	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 war	cop
17	still	still	ADV	_	19 war	advmod
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 war	case
19	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 molested	obl
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 Milicetes	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Milicetes	det
22	Milicetes	Milicetes	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 war	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Mohawks	cc
24	Mohawks	mohawk	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 Milicetes	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 destroyed	cc
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fact	punct
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 fact	case
28	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 destroyed	nsubj:pass
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fact	punct
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 destroyed	aux:pass
31	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	32 destroyed	advmod
32	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 Milicetes	conj
33	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 times	nummod
34	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 destroyed	obl:unmarked
35	by	by	ADP	_	38 foes	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 foes	nmod:poss
37	ruthless	ruthless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 foes	amod
38	foes	foe	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 destroyed	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 molested	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 molested	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, 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

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.

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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 84