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title: But the Master with silent soul Ever sang the songs of magic, The aw… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Master with silent soul Ever sang the songs of magic, The awful incantations, Till he had passed the darkness And came again into sunlight, The bright and beautiful day. Who acts: Master, magic. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 13, with its depende
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 14

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But the Master with silent soul Ever sang the songs of magic, The awful incantations, Till he had passed the darkness And came again into sunlight, The bright and beautiful day.

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**Who acts:** Master, magic · **What happens:** sing, pass, come · **To what, where:** songs, darkness, sunlight

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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 (Master, magic), 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:pg78673:13:14
# text = But the Master with silent soul Ever sang the songs of magic, The awful incantations, Till he had passed the darkness And came again into sunlight, The bright and beautiful day.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	Ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	advmod	_	_
8	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	incantations	incantation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	Till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
26	again	again	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
34	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the Master with silent soul | the songs of magic and the awful incantations |  |  | ever |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | past · perfect | Master | the darkness |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme darkness=Trajectory |
| 3 | **come** | past | Master *not said here* |  |  | sunlight and the bright day | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into sunlight=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **sing** |  | magic |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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