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title: Now all the _waagûkw_ were devils, The spirits of every poison, Whic… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Now all the _waagûkw_ were devils, The spirits of every poison, Which she thought had such a power As must even kill the Master. Who acts: spirits, waagûkw. 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 4

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Now all the \_waagûkw\_ were devils, The spirits of every poison, Which she thought had such a power As must even kill the Master.

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**Who acts:** spirits, waagûkw · **What happens:** be, think, have, kill · **To what, where:** devils, power, Master

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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 (spirits, waagûkw), 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:pg78673:12:4
# text = Now all the _waagûkw_ were devils, The spirits of every poison, Which she thought had such a power As must even kill the Master.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	waagûkw	waagûkw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	devils	devil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	22	det:predet	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	even	even	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | devils and the spirits of every poison |  |  |  | the spirits of every poison *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the spirits of every poison |  |  |  |  | waagûkw *nsubj* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past | all waagûkw | such power |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
| 4 | **kill** | must | all waagûkw *not said here* | the Master |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Theme |

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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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