Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 53
“The first war between the last two tribes was brought about by the quarrel of two boys, sons of chiefs.
Who acts: quarrel, two boys · What happens: bring about, quarrel · To what, where: first war
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 (quarrel, two boys), 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 brought | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 war | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 war | amod |
| 4 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 9 tribes | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tribes | det |
| 7 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tribes | amod |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 tribes | nummod |
| 9 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 war | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 brought | aux:pass |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 brought | advmod |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 quarrel | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 quarrel | det |
| 15 | quarrel | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 boys | case |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 boys | nummod |
| 18 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 quarrel | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sons | punct |
| 20 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 boys | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 chiefs | case |
| 22 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sons | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring about in a quote | past · passive | the quarrel of two boys | the first war between the last two tribes | about property | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | quarrel in a quote | two boys | nom quarrel «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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