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title: Now for thirty days Kulóskap Who had well-nigh lost his power Of mag… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Now for thirty days Kulóskap Who had well-nigh lost his power Of magic, as all magicians Are often all exhausted, Remembered that his friend The Fox was mteolin, With all the strength of sorcery. Who acts: thirty days, friend. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, p
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 56

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Now for thirty days Kulóskap Who had well-nigh lost his power Of magic, as all magicians Are often all exhausted, Remembered that his friend The Fox was mteolin, With all the strength of sorcery.

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**Who acts:** thirty days, friend · **What happens:** have, lose, exhaust, remember, be · **To what, where:** power, magicians, mteolin

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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 (thirty days, friend), 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:pg78673:12:56
# text = Now for thirty days Kulóskap Who had well-nigh lost his power Of magic, as all magicians Are often all exhausted, Remembered that his friend The Fox was mteolin, With all the strength of sorcery.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	magicians	magician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
21	often	often	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	all	all	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Remembered	remember	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
29	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	mteolin	mteolin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	With	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	37	det:predet	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	sorcery	sorcery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | thirty days |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** | past | thirty days *not said here* | Kulóskap's power of magic |  |  |  | nigh, well *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality |
| 3 | **exhaust** | present · passive |  | all magicians |  |  |  | all, often *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 4 | **remember** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with all strength of sorcery | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past | Kulóskap's friend | mteolin |  |  |  |  | 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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