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title: It was a dreadful flight, Since to make their steps the longer Both… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a dreadful flight, Since to make their steps the longer Both took the giant form, Took it by magic power. Who acts: power, Both, Witches. 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 112

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It was a dreadful flight, Since to make their steps the longer Both took the giant form, Took it by magic power.

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**Who acts:** power, Both, Witches · **What happens:** be, make, take, step · **To what, where:** dreadful flight, steps, giant form, power

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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 (power, Both, Witches), 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:pg78673:11:112
# text = It was a dreadful flight, Since to make their steps the longer Both took the giant form, Took it by magic power.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	Since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
14	Both	Both	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | power | a dreadful flight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | Witches's steps |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset step=Product |
| 3 | **take** | past | Both | the giant form |  |  |  | long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | past | Both *not said here* | power |  |  |  | by magic power | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **step** |  | Witches *= witch* |  |  |  |  |  | nom step «act 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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