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title: In ancient days when wizard power was great There were two mighty me… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: In ancient days when wizard power was great There were two mighty men who knew these arts And understood full well unholy skill. Who acts: wizard power, two mighty men. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 23

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In ancient days when wizard power was great There were two mighty men who knew these arts And understood full well unholy skill.

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**Who acts:** wizard power, two mighty men · **What happens:** be, know, understand · **To what, where:** arts, full skill

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wizard power, two mighty men), 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:pg78673:15:23
# text = In ancient days when wizard power was great There were two mighty men who knew these arts And understood full well unholy skill.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
5	wizard	wizard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	arts	art	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
22	unholy	unholy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | wizard power |  |  |  | day | great *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | past | two mighty men |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **know** | past | two mighty men | this arts |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer art=Stimulus |
| 4 | **understand** | past | two mighty men *not said here* | full skill |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer skill=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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