Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 24
Once on a time it chanced that these great twain Did quarrel for a certain hunting ground.
Who acts: power, great twain · What happens: chance, do · To what, where: quarrel
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (power, great twain), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 chanced | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chanced | obl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 chanced | nsubj |
| 6 | chanced | chance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 Did | mark |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 twain | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 twain | amod |
| 10 | twain | twain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Did | nsubj |
| 11 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 chanced | advcl |
| 12 | quarrel | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Did | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 ground | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 ground | det |
| 15 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ground | amod |
| 16 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ground | compound |
| 17 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Did | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 chanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chance | past | power | time | once property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | past | this great twain | quarrel | for a certain hunting ground | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarrel=Eventuality |
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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