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title: “Why dost thou seek to keep thy son from getting magic power? — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: “Why dost thou seek to keep thy son from getting magic power? Who acts: thou. 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 68

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“Why dost thou seek to keep thy son from getting magic power?

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** seek, keep, get · **To what, where:** son, magic power

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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 (thou), 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:pg78673:14:68
# text = “Why dost thou seek to keep thy son from getting magic power?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	dost	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
5	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** *in a quote* | present · do-support | thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | thy son |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme |
| 3 | **get** *in a quote* | gerund | thou *not said here* | magic power |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer power=Stimulus |

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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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