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title: I sit and beat the wizard’s magic drum; And by its mystic sound I ca… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: I sit and beat the wizard’s magic drum; And by its mystic sound I call the beasts. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 101

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I sit and beat the wizard’s magic drum; And by its mystic sound I call the beasts.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** sit, beat, call · **To what, where:** magic drum, beasts · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg78673:13:101
# text = I sit and beat the wizard’s magic drum; And by its mystic sound I call the beasts.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	beat	beat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
11	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	mystic	mystic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **beat** | present | I *not said here* | the wizard's magic drum |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | present | I | the beasts |  |  |  | by drum's mystic sound | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent beast=Recipient |

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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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