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title: Among the more cultured tribes the sticks were eventually replaced b… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Among the more cultured tribes the sticks were eventually replaced by wooden tablets, on which the symbols were engraved with a sharp instrument, such as a flint or knife. Who acts: wooden tablets. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2, with its dependency tr
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 98

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Among the more cultured tribes the sticks were eventually replaced by wooden tablets, on which the symbols were engraved with a sharp instrument, such as a flint or knife.

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**Who acts:** wooden tablets · **What happens:** culture, replace, engrave · **To what, where:** sticks, symbols

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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 (wooden tablets), 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:pg78673:2:98
# text = Among the more cultured tribes the sticks were eventually replaced by wooden tablets, on which the symbols were engraved with a sharp instrument, such as a flint or knife.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	cultured	culture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	eventually	eventually	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	replaced	replace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tablets	tablet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	symbols	symbol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	engraved	engrave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	instrument	instrument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	29	case	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	flint	flint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **culture** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **replace** | past · passive | wooden tablets | the sticks |  |  |  | among the cultured tribes; eventually *property* | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **engrave** | past · passive |  | the symbols |  |  |  | with a sharp instrument; which *obl* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme on which=Destination |

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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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