Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 83
This was the final blow to the Mohawk cause, so that the nation ever afterward sought to be at peace with the Passamaquoddies.”
Who acts: This · What happens: be, seek · To what, where: final blow, nation, 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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 blow | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 blow | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 blow | det |
| 4 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blow | amod |
| 5 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 cause | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cause | det |
| 8 | Mohawk | Mohawk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cause | compound |
| 9 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blow | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sought | punct |
| 11 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 17 sought | mark |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 so | fixed |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 nation | det |
| 14 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sought | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 sought | advmod |
| 16 | afterward | afterward | ADV | _ | 17 sought | advmod |
| 17 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 blow | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 peace | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 peace | cop |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 peace | case |
| 21 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sought | xcomp |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 Passamaquoddies | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Passamaquoddies | det |
| 24 | Passamaquoddies | passamaquoddy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 peace | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 sought | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 blow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | the final blow | to the Mohawk cause | tree rules | |||
| 2 | seek | participle · passive | the nation | ever | afterward property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | peace | with the Passamaquoddies | 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.
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