Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 89
And the Indians raised _tomáwe_, That is to say, tobacco, Far better than the best Which ever is seen to-day.
Who acts: Indians, That · What happens: raise, be, see · To what, where: tomáwe
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 (Indians, That), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 raised | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Indians | det |
| 3 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 raised | nsubj |
| 4 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 tomáwe | punct |
| 6 | tomáwe | tomáwe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 raised | obj |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 tomáwe | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 say | punct |
| 9 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 say | nsubj:outer |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 say | cop |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 say | mark |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 raised | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tobacco | punct |
| 14 | tobacco | tobacco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 say | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 better | punct |
| 16 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 better | advmod |
| 17 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 say | parataxis |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 best | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 best | det |
| 20 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 better | obl |
| 21 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 seen | advmod |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 seen | aux:pass |
| 24 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 better | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 day | case |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 to | punct |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seen | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | the Indians | tomáwe | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tomáwe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | That | tobacco obj; say property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | present · passive | ever; day | Which nsubj:pass | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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