Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 44
The bitterest foes of the Wabanaki were undoubtedly the Megʾwek or Mohawks, who on the slightest provocation would send bands to harry them and destroy their crops.
Who acts: bitterest foes, Megʾwek Mohawks · What happens: be, send, harry, destroy · To what, where: Megʾwek Mohawks, bands, slightest provocation, crops
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 (bitterest foes, Megʾwek Mohawks), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 foes | det |
| 2 | bitterest | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 foes | amod |
| 3 | foes | foe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Mohawks | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Wabanaki | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Wabanaki | det |
| 6 | Wabanaki | Wabanaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 foes | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Mohawks | cop |
| 8 | undoubtedly | undoubtedly | ADV | _ | 12 Mohawks | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Mohawks | det |
| 10 | Megʾwek | Megʾwek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Mohawks | compound |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 Mohawks | cc |
| 12 | Mohawks | mohawk | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 send | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 send | nsubj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 provocation | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 provocation | det |
| 17 | slightest | slight | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 provocation | amod |
| 18 | provocation | provocation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 send | obl |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 send | aux |
| 20 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 Mohawks | parataxis |
| 21 | bands | band | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 send | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 harry | mark |
| 23 | harry | harry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 send | advcl |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 harry | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 destroy | cc |
| 26 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 harry | conj |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 crops | nmod:poss |
| 28 | crops | crop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 destroy | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 Mohawks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the bitterest foes of the Wabanaki | the Megʾwek Mohawks | undoubtedly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | send | would | the Megʾwek Mohawks | bands | the slightest provocation | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Theme | |||
| 3 | harry | to-infinitive | the Megʾwek Mohawks not said here | bands = band | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 4 | destroy | infinitive | the Megʾwek Mohawks not said here | foes's crops | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=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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