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title: But these had been enchanted, Poisoned by magic spells; Had the Mast… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: But these had been enchanted, Poisoned by magic spells; Had the Master taken them then He would have lost his power. Who acts: Master, wolf. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 22

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But these had been enchanted, Poisoned by magic spells; Had the Master taken them then He would have lost his power.

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**Who acts:** Master, wolf · **What happens:** enchant, poison, have, take, lose · **To what, where:** these, entrails, power

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Master, wolf), 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:pg78673:12:22
# text = But these had been enchanted, Poisoned by magic spells; Had the Master taken them then He would have lost his power.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Poisoned	poison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	spells	spell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	xcomp	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
18	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux	_	_
21	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enchant** | past · perfect · passive |  | these |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **poison** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by magic spells | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | participle | the Master | entrails *= entrail* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **lose** | would · perfect | wolf | wolf's power |  |  | then |  | 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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