Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 62
So great was the hostile spirit that the two tribes fought whenever they met, paying no heed to the time of year.
Who acts: two tribes, tribes · What happens: be, fight, meet, pay · To what, where: great hostile spirit, heed
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 (two tribes, tribes), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 great | advmod |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 spirit | amod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 spirit | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 spirit | det |
| 5 | hostile | hostile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 spirit | amod |
| 6 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 fought | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tribes | det |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 tribes | nummod |
| 10 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fought | nsubj |
| 11 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 spirit | advcl |
| 12 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 met | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 met | nsubj |
| 14 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fought | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 paying | punct |
| 16 | paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 met | advcl |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 heed | det |
| 18 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 paying | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 paying | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 year | case |
| 23 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 time | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 spirit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the great hostile spirit | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fight | past | the two tribes | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | meet | past | tribes = tribe | whenever property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | pay | gerund | tribes = tribe not said here | no heed | time | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset |
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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