Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 81

It was ascertained afterwards that the Mohawks had quarrelled among themselves, one party being in favor of making peace with the enemy, while another faction was strongly opposed to such a measure.

Who acts: one party, favor, faction · What happens: ascertain, quarrell, be, make · To what, where: name, Mohawks, favor, peace

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 (one party, favor, faction), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ascertained	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ascertained	aux:pass
3	ascertained	ascertain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	3 ascertained	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 quarrelled	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Mohawks	det
7	Mohawks	mohawk	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 quarrelled	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 quarrelled	aux
9	quarrelled	quarrell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ascertained	advcl
10	among	among	ADP	_	11 themselves	case
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 quarrelled	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 favor	punct
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 party	nummod
14	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 favor	nsubj
15	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 favor	cop
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 favor	case
17	favor	favor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 quarrelled	obl
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 making	mark
19	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 favor	acl
20	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 making	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 enemy	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 enemy	det
23	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 making	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 opposed	punct
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 opposed	mark
26	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	27 faction	det
27	faction	faction	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 opposed	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 opposed	cop
29	strongly	strongly	ADV	_	30 opposed	advmod
30	opposed	opposed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ascertained	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	34 measure	case
32	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	34 measure	det:predet
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 measure	det
34	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 opposed	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ascertained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ascertain	past · passive		name		afterwards property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	quarrell	past · perfect · passive		the Mohawks		among Mohawks = mohawk	tree rules
3	is	gerund	one party		favor		tree rules
4	make	gerund	favor not said here	peace		with the enemy	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset peace=Product
5	is	past	another faction			to such measure; opposed, strongly property	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/2/81/

🌲 Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 81

The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 81