Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 50
“The cause of the strife was an hereditary dispute about hunting grounds.
Who acts: cause · What happens: be, cause · To what, where: hereditary dispute, strife
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 (cause), 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 | _ | 10 dispute | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cause | det |
| 3 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dispute | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 strife | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 strife | det |
| 6 | strife | strife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cause | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dispute | cop |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dispute | det |
| 9 | hereditary | hereditary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dispute | amod |
| 10 | dispute | dispute | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 grounds | case |
| 12 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grounds | compound |
| 13 | grounds | grounds | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 10 dispute | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 dispute | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | the cause of the strife | a hereditary dispute | about hunting grounds | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cause in a quote | the strife | nom cause «event transitive»: of=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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