Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 6
And Lox replied as if He did a favor, all With condescending air; And ate their best dried meat, And took the highest place Beside their fires, and smoked The chief’s best _tomawe_, That is tobacco, from The chieftain’s choicest pipe; While all the others grinned At his tremendous cheek, To see him put it on-- The Indian Devil, Lox.
Who acts: Lox, others, beasts · What happens: reply, do, eat, dry, take, smoke · To what, where: favor, best dried meat, highest place, fires, best tomawe, choicest pipe
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lox, others, beasts), 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 | _ | 3 replied | cc |
| 2 | Lox | Lox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 did | mark |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 did | mark |
| 6 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 did | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 replied | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 favor | det |
| 9 | favor | favor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 did | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 all | punct |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 favor | appos |
| 12 | With | with | ADP | _ | 14 air | case |
| 13 | condescending | condescending | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 air | amod |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 all | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 ate | punct |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ate | cc |
| 17 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 replied | conj |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 meat | nmod:poss |
| 19 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 meat | amod |
| 20 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 meat | amod |
| 21 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ate | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 took | punct |
| 23 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 took | cc |
| 24 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 ate | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 place | det |
| 26 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 place | amod |
| 27 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 took | obj |
| 28 | Beside | beside | ADP | _ | 30 fires | case |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 fires | nmod:poss |
| 30 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 took | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 smoked | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 smoked | cc |
| 33 | smoked | smoke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 ate | conj |
| 34 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 chief | det |
| 35 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 tomawe | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 35 chief | case |
| 37 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 39 tomawe | amod |
| 38 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 39 tomawe | punct |
| 39 | tomawe | tomawe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 smoked | obj |
| 40 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 39 tomawe | punct |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 tobacco | punct |
| 42 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 44 tobacco | det |
| 43 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 tobacco | cop |
| 44 | tobacco | tobacco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 tomawe | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 pipe | punct |
| 46 | from | from | ADP | _ | 51 pipe | case |
| 47 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 chieftain | det |
| 48 | chieftain | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 pipe | nmod:poss |
| 49 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 48 chieftain | case |
| 50 | choicest | choice | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 51 pipe | amod |
| 51 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 smoked | obl |
| 52 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 57 grinned | punct |
| 53 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 57 grinned | mark |
| 54 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 56 others | det:predet |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 others | det |
| 56 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 grinned | nsubj |
| 57 | grinned | grin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 replied | parataxis |
| 58 | At | at | ADP | _ | 61 cheek | case |
| 59 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 61 cheek | nmod:poss |
| 60 | tremendous | tremendous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 61 cheek | amod |
| 61 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 grinned | obl |
| 62 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 64 see | punct |
| 63 | To | to | PART | _ | 64 see | mark |
| 64 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 57 grinned | conj |
| 65 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 64 see | obj |
| 66 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 64 see | xcomp |
| 67 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 66 put | obj |
| 68 | on | on | ADP | _ | 66 put | compound:prt |
| 69 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 72 Devil | punct |
| 70 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 72 Devil | det |
| 71 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 72 Devil | amod |
| 72 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 66 put | obj |
| 73 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 74 Lox | punct |
| 74 | Lox | Lox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 72 Devil | flat |
| 75 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Lox | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do | past | Lox | a favor | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favor=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | eat | past | Lox not said here | beasts's best dried meat | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient | ||||
| 4 | dry | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | take | past | Lox not said here | the highest place | beasts's fires | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||
| 6 | smoke | past | Lox not said here | the chief's best tomawe and that tobacco | the chieftain's choicest pipe | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent tomawe=Source | |||
| 7 | is a | present | Lox not said here | that tobacco | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | grin | past | all others | Lox's tremendous cheek | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | see | to-infinitive | all others not said here | Lox | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | put on | infinitive | Lox not said here | place | the Indian Devil obj | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Asset devil=Goal | |||
| 11 | fire | beasts = beast | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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