🌲 Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 84

Now, just before he came, These honest Indians Had in a council resolved To send their boldest man Though ’twere to certain death, Even unto the village Where dwelt the evil chief Who built the cursèd dam Which kept the water with which They slaked their thirst when they Could get it--that is to say, Whenever the water was running.

Who acts: Kulóskap, honest Indians, evil chief, cursèd dam, children, that · What happens: come, have, resolve, send, dwell, build · To what, where: council, boldest man, evil chief, cursèd dam, water, thirst · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kulóskap, honest Indians, evil chief, cursèd dam), 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

Pragmatics

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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