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title: “In former days the Wabanaki nation, the Indians called Megʾwek, or… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: “In former days the Wabanaki nation, the Indians called Megʾwek, or Mohawks, and other members of the Iroquoian Six Nations, were wont to wage bloody and unceasing war with one another. Who acts: Indians, other members. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2, 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 42

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“In former days the Wabanaki nation, the Indians called Megʾwek, or Mohawks, and other members of the Iroquoian Six Nations, were wont to wage bloody and unceasing war with one another.

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**Who acts:** Indians, other members · **What happens:** call, be, wage · **To what, where:** Mohawks, bloody war · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Indians, other members), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78673:2:42
# text = “In former days the Wabanaki nation, the Indians called Megʾwek, or Mohawks, and other members of the Iroquoian Six Nations, were wont to wage bloody and unceasing war with one another.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Wabanaki	Wabanaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Megʾwek	Megʾwek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Mohawks	mohawk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	Iroquoian	Iroquoian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	Six	Six	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Nations	Nation	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	wont	wont	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	wage	wage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	unceasing	unceasing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
33	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	obl	_	_
36	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *in a quote* | past | the Indians | Mohawks |  |  | day | Megʾwek *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | other members of the Iroquoian Six Nations |  |  |  |  | wont *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **wage** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | other members of the Iroquoian Six Nations *not said here* | bloody war |  |  |  | with one | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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