Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 39
The northern Algonkin tribes were very probably in a loose federation with the Iroquois merely for purposes of intertribal arbitration.
Who acts: northern Algonkin tribes, intertribal arbitration · What happens: be, purpose · To what, where: loose federation
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (northern Algonkin tribes, intertribal arbitration), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tribes | det |
| 2 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tribes | amod |
| 3 | Algonkin | Algonkin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tribes | compound |
| 4 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 federation | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 federation | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 probably | advmod |
| 7 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 11 federation | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 federation | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 federation | det |
| 10 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 federation | amod |
| 11 | federation | federation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 Iroquois | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Iroquois | det |
| 14 | Iroquois | Iroquois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 federation | nmod |
| 15 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 11 federation | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 purposes | case |
| 17 | purposes | purpose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 federation | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 arbitration | case |
| 19 | intertribal | intertribal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 arbitration | amod |
| 20 | arbitration | arbitration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 purposes | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 federation | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the northern Algonkin tribes | a loose federation | with the Iroquois; for purposes of intertribal arbitration; merely, probably property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | purpose | intertribal arbitration | nom purpose «cognition 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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