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title: How the Indians lost their Power 314 VIII. — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: How the Indians lost their Power 314 VIII. Who acts: Indians. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 1, sentence 75

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How the Indians lost their Power 314 VIII.

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**Who acts:** Indians · **What happens:** lose · **To what, where:** Power

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indians), 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:pg78673:1:76
# text = How the Indians lost their Power 314 VIII.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	Power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	314	314	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	_
8	VIII	VIII	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	7	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past | the Indians | Indians's Power |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality |

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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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