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title: I sit and beat the wizard’s magic drum; And Lumpeguin, who dwells be… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: I sit and beat the wizard’s magic drum; And Lumpeguin, who dwells beneath the wave, Arises to the surface struck with awe, To hearken to the mystic sound I make. Who acts: I, Lumpeguin. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 106

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I sit and beat the wizard’s magic drum; And Lumpeguin, who dwells beneath the wave, Arises to the surface struck with awe, To hearken to the mystic sound I make.

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**Who acts:** I, Lumpeguin · **What happens:** sit, beat, dwell, arise, strike, hearken · **To what, where:** magic drum, wave, surface, mystic sound

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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, Lumpeguin), 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:pg78673:13:106
# text = I sit and beat the wizard’s magic drum; And Lumpeguin, who dwells beneath the wave, Arises to the surface struck with awe, To hearken to the mystic sound I make.
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	:	_	20	punct	_	_
11	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
12	Lumpeguin	Lumpeguin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	dwells	dwell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
20	Arises	arise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	awe	awe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	To	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	mystic	mystic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **dwell** | present | Lumpeguin |  |  | the wave |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath wave=Location |
| 4 | **arise** | present | Lumpeguin |  |  |  |  | to the surface | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **strike** | participle |  | the surface *not said here* |  |  |  | with awe | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with awe=Theme |
| 6 | **hearken** | to-infinitive | Lumpeguin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the mystic sound | tree rules |
| 7 | **make** | present | I | the mystic sound *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Product |

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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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