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title: I sit and beat the wizard’s magic drum; And Appodumken, with his lon… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: I sit and beat the wizard’s magic drum; And Appodumken, with his long, red hair, Ariseth from the depths, and draweth near To hearken to the mystic sound I make. Who acts: I, Appodumken. 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 108

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I sit and beat the wizard’s magic drum; And Appodumken, with his long, red hair, Ariseth from the depths, and draweth near To hearken to the mystic sound I make.

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**Who acts:** I, Appodumken · **What happens:** sit, beat, arise, draw, hearken, make · **To what, where:** magic drum, depths, 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, Appodumken), 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:pg78673:13:108
# text = I sit and beat the wizard’s magic drum; And Appodumken, with his long, red hair, Ariseth from the depths, and draweth near 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	:	_	21	punct	_	_
11	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
12	Appodumken	Appodumken	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
21	Ariseth	arise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	draweth	draw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
28	near	near	ADP	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	To	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	mystic	mystic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	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 | **arise** | present | Appodumken |  |  | the depths |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **draw** | present | Appodumken *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hearken** | to-infinitive | Appodumken *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the mystic sound | tree rules |
| 6 | **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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