Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 15

To him especially, as well as to the late Rev. Silas Rand of Nova Scotia and to Miss Abbey Alger of Boston, do we owe some highly valuable additions to our knowledge of early eastern Algonkin thought.

Who acts: we, knowledge · What happens: owe, think · To what, where: valuable additions, knowledge

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 (we, knowledge), 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 him	case
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 owe	reparandum
3	especially	especially	ADV	_	13 Rand	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Rand	punct
5	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	13 Rand	cc
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 as	fixed
7	as	as	ADP	_	5 as	fixed
8	to	to	ADP	_	5 as	fixed
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Rand	det
10	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Rand	amod
11	Rev.	Rev.	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Silas	nmod:desc
12	Silas	Silas	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Rand	compound
13	Rand	Rand	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 him	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Nova	case
15	Nova	Nova	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Rand	nmod
16	Scotia	Scotia	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Nova	flat
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Miss	cc
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 Miss	case
19	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Rand	conj
20	Abbey	Abbey	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Miss	flat
21	Alger	Alger	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Miss	flat
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Boston	case
23	Boston	Boston	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Alger	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 owe	punct
25	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 owe	aux
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 owe	nsubj
27	owe	owe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 additions	det
29	highly	highly	ADV	_	30 valuable	advmod
30	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 additions	amod
31	additions	addition	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 owe	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 knowledge	case
33	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 knowledge	nmod:poss
34	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 owe	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 Algonkin	case
36	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Algonkin	amod
37	eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Algonkin	amod
38	Algonkin	Algonkin	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 thought	obl
39	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 knowledge	acl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 owe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	owe	present · do-support	we	some valuable additions				to our knowledge goal; Leland reparandum	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent addition=Theme to knowledge=Goal
2	think speech: other	past	our knowledge not said here					of early eastern Algonkin	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 15