Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 56

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 · What happens: eat, become, be, fall · To what, where: enemies

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.

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	For	for	ADP	_	2 example	case
2	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ate	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 example	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Fijis	det
5	Fijis	Fiji	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 ate	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Maoris	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Maoris	det
8	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Zealand	flat
9	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Maoris	compound
10	Maoris	Maoris	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Fijis	conj
11	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 enemies	nmod:poss
13	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ate	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 object	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 object	det
16	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 object	amod
17	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ate	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 view	case
19	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 object	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 viz	punct
21	viz	viz	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 object	appos
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 ate	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 become	punct
24	to	to	PART	_	25 become	mark
25	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 ate	conj
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 brave	advmod
27	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 become	xcomp
28	as	as	ADP	_	31 foe	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 foe	det
30	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 foe	amod
31	foe	foe	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 brave	obl
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 been	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 brave	cop
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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

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 3, sentence 56

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Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 56