Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 105

Though what were life or death To any woman born, Likewise to many a man, Compared unto the joy Of learning that which is None of their business-- And tattling it abroad?

Who acts: learning · What happens: be, bear, compare, tattle, joy · To what, where: life, woman, death, learning

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (learning), 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	Though	though	SCONJ	_	4 life	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 life	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 life	cop
4	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 death	cc
6	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 life	conj
7	To	to	ADP	_	9 woman	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 woman	det
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 life	nmod
10	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 woman	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 many	punct
12	Likewise	likewise	ADV	_	14 many	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 many	case
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 born	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 many	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Compared	punct
18	Compared	compare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 many	conj
19	unto	unto	ADP	_	21 joy	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 joy	det
21	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Compared	obl
22	Of	of	ADP	_	23 learning	case
23	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 joy	nmod
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 business	nsubj
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 business	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 business	cop
27	None	None	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 business	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 business	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 business	nmod:poss
30	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 learning	acl:relcl
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	4 life	punct
32	And	and	CCONJ	_	33 tattling	cc
33	tattling	tattle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 --	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 tattling	obj
35	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	33 tattling	advmod
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 life	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		life or death	to any woman; what nsubj; death conj	tree rules
2	bear	participle		any woman not said here		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	compare	participle			unto the joy of learning	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	is	present	learning		of life's business; None nsubj; life nmod:poss	tree rules
5	tattle	gerund		death	abroad property	tree rules
6	joy			learning		nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 105