Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 42

“In former days the Wabanaki nation, the Indians called Megʾwek, or Mohawks, and other members of the Iroquoian Six Nations, were wont to wage bloody and unceasing war with one another.

Who acts: Indians, other members · What happens: call, be, wage · To what, where: Mohawks, bloody war · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Indians, other members), 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	_	11 called	punct
2	In	in	ADP	_	4 days	case
3	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 days	amod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 called	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 nation	det
6	Wabanaki	Wabanaki	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 nation	compound
7	nation	nation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 days	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 days	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Indians	det
10	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 called	nsubj
11	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Megʾwek	Megʾwek	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 called	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Mohawks	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 Mohawks	cc
15	Mohawks	mohawk	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 called	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wont	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 wont	cc
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 members	amod
19	members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 wont	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	24 Nations	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Nations	det
22	Iroquoian	Iroquoian	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Nations	compound
23	Six	Six	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Nations	compound
24	Nations	Nation	PROPN	Number=Plur	19 members	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 members	punct
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 wont	cop
27	wont	wont	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 called	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 wage	mark
29	wage	wage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 wont	xcomp
30	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 war	amod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 unceasing	cc
32	unceasing	unceasing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bloody	conj
33	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wage	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 one	case
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 wage	obl
36	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	35 one	fixed
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	call in a quote	past	the Indians	Mohawks	day	Megʾwek xcomp	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	past	other members of the Iroquoian Six Nations			wont property	tree rules
3	wage in a quote	to-infinitive	other members of the Iroquoian Six Nations not said here	bloody war		with one	tree rules

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 42