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title: And the Indians raised _tomáwe_, That is to say, tobacco, Far better… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 89

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And the Indians raised \_tomáwe\_, That is to say, tobacco, Far better than the best Which ever is seen to-day.

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**Who acts:** Indians, That · **What happens:** raise, be, see · **To what, where:** tomáwe

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78673:11:89
# text = And the Indians raised _tomáwe_, That is to say, tobacco, Far better than the best Which ever is seen to-day.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	tomáwe	tomáwe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj:outer	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	parataxis	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	obl	_	_
21	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	24	advmod	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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