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title: And Lox replied as if He did a favor, all With condescending air; An… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: 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 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 6

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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.

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**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

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78673:19:6
# text = 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.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Lox	Lox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	favor	favor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	appos	_	_
12	With	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	condescending	condescending	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
19	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
20	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
27	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	Beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	smoked	smoke	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
34	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’s	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	39	amod	_	_
38	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	tomawe	tomawe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	44	det	_	_
43	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
44	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
46	from	from	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
47	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	chieftain	chieftain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	’s	's	PART	POS	_	48	case	_	_
50	choicest	choice	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	51	amod	_	_
51	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	57	punct	_	_
53	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
54	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	56	det:predet	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nsubj	_	_
57	grinned	grin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
58	At	at	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
60	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
63	To	to	PART	TO	_	64	mark	_	_
64	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	57	conj	_	_
65	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	64	obj	_	_
66	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	64	xcomp	_	_
67	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	66	obj	_	_
68	on	on	ADP	RP	_	66	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	72	punct	_	_
70	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	72	det	_	_
71	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	72	amod	_	_
72	Devil	Devil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	66	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	74	punct	_	_
74	Lox	Lox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	72	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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