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title: Old Lacote was a wizard made a trap, A deadfall trap for bear off in… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Old Lacote was a wizard made a trap, A deadfall trap for bear off in the woods. Who acts: Lacote, Old wizard. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 58

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Old Lacote was a wizard made a trap, A deadfall trap for bear off in the woods.

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**Who acts:** Lacote, Old wizard · **What happens:** be, make off · **To what, where:** Old wizard, trap, woods

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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 (Lacote, Old wizard), 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:pg78673:15:59
# text = Old Lacote was a wizard made a trap, A deadfall trap for bear off in the woods.
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	Lacote	Lacote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	deadfall	deadfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Lacote | a Old wizard |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make off** | past | a Old wizard | a trap |  | the woods |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trap=Product |

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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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