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title: Then the sorcerer filled his pipe Afresh with strong tobacco, Such a… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the sorcerer filled his pipe Afresh with strong tobacco, Such as would kill if they breathed it A porcupine or a toad. Who acts: sorcerer, strong tobacco, sorcerers. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 94

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Then the sorcerer filled his pipe Afresh with strong tobacco, Such as would kill if they breathed it A porcupine or a toad.

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**Who acts:** sorcerer, strong tobacco, sorcerers · **What happens:** fill, kill, breathe · **To what, where:** pipe

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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 (sorcerer, strong tobacco, sorcerers), 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:pg78673:11:94
# text = Then the sorcerer filled his pipe Afresh with strong tobacco, Such as would kill if they breathed it A porcupine or a toad.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sorcerer	sorcerer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	Afresh	afresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	Such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	15	mark	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	breathed	breathe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	porcupine	porcupine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | past | the sorcerer | boulder's pipe |  |  | then | afresh *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pipe=Patient |
| 2 | **kill** | would | strong tobacco *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **breathe** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | sorcerers *= sorcerer* | pipe |  |  |  | a porcupine or a toad *obj* | tree rules |

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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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