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title: The man perceived that power to fly lay hidden in this charm, And so… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The man perceived that power to fly lay hidden in this charm, And so at once decided he would steal the thing away. Who acts: man, 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 87

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The man perceived that power to fly lay hidden in this charm, And so at once decided he would steal the thing away.

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**Who acts:** man, power · **What happens:** perceive, fly, lay, hide, decide, steal away · **To what, where:** charm, thing

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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 (man, 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:pg78673:14:87
# text = The man perceived that power to fly lay hidden in this charm, And so at once decided he would steal the thing away.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	xcomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	18	advmod	_	_
18	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perceive** | past | the man |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **fly** | to-infinitive | power *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lay** | infinitive | power |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hide** | participle | power *not said here* |  |  | this charm |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in charm=Location |
| 5 | **decide** | past | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **steal away** *not said to happen* | would | power | the thing |  |  |  | away *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thing=Theme |

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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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