Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 56
Then they brought an enormous pipe Full of the strongest tobacco; No man, not even a sorcerer Could have smoked such fearful stuff.
Who acts: brothers, man · What happens: bring, not smoke · To what, where: enormous pipe, sorcerer
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, man), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 brought | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pipe | det |
| 5 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pipe | amod |
| 6 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obj |
| 7 | Full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pipe | amod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tobacco | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tobacco | det |
| 10 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 tobacco | amod |
| 11 | tobacco | tobacco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Full | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 man | punct |
| 13 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 smoked | punct |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 smoked | advmod |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 smoked | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sorcerer | det |
| 19 | sorcerer | sorcerer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 smoked | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 smoked | aux |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 smoked | aux |
| 22 | smoked | smoke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 man | acl:relcl |
| 23 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stuff | amod |
| 24 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stuff | amod |
| 25 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 smoked | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | brothers = brother | a enormous pipe | then | no man obl | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pipe=Theme | ||
| 2 | not smoke | could · perfect · passive | no man not said here | a sorcerer | such fearful stuff obj | 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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