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title: So great was the hostile spirit that the two tribes fought whenever… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 62

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So great was the hostile spirit that the two tribes fought whenever they met, paying no heed to the time of year.

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**Who acts:** two tribes, tribes · **What happens:** be, fight, meet, pay · **To what, where:** great hostile spirit, heed

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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 (two tribes, tribes), 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:pg78673:2:62
# text = So great was the hostile spirit that the two tribes fought whenever they met, paying no heed to the time of year.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	hostile	hostile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
12	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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