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title: It was ascertained afterwards that the Mohawks had quarrelled among… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», O
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 81

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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.

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

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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 (one party, favor, faction), 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:pg78673:2:81
# text = 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.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	ascertained	ascertain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Mohawks	mohawk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	quarrelled	quarrell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
10	among	among	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	cop	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	favor	favor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
20	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	faction	faction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	strongly	strongly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	opposed	opposed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	34	det:predet	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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