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title: I am not as I was before, but have the power to move And climb from… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: I am not as I was before, but have the power to move And climb from ledge to ledge as doth a worm, upon my head. Who acts: I, power. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 54

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I am not as I was before, but have the power to move And climb from ledge to ledge as doth a worm, upon my head.

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**Who acts:** I, power · **What happens:** not be, have, move, climb, ledge, do · **To what, where:** power, ledge, worm

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, power), 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:pg78673:14:54
# text = I am not as I was before, but have the power to move And climb from ledge to ledge as doth a worm, upon my head.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	before	before	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
15	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	ledge	ledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	ledge	ledge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	doth	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | before *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | I *not said here* | the power |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **move** | to-infinitive | the power *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **climb** | infinitive | the power *not said here* |  |  | ledge |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from ledge=Trajectory |
| 5 | **ledge** | to-infinitive | the power *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon my head | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** | present | the power *not said here* | a worm |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Eventuality |

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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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