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title: But by the magic arts of wizard foe Through old Sabatis’ guile who o… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: But by the magic arts of wizard foe Through old Sabatis’ guile who owed him hate, The prop-stick fell and let the great bear-trap Drop full upon old Lacote’s head and back. Who acts: guile, magic arts. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 15, with its dependen
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 60

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But by the magic arts of wizard foe Through old Sabatis’ guile who owed him hate, The prop-stick fell and let the great bear-trap Drop full upon old Lacote’s head and back.

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**Who acts:** guile, magic arts · **What happens:** owe, fall, let · **To what, where:** hate, Lacote, great trap Drop

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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 (guile, magic arts), 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:pg78673:15:61
# text = But by the magic arts of wizard foe Through old Sabatis’ guile who owed him hate, The prop-stick fell and let the great bear-trap Drop full upon old Lacote’s head and back.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	arts	art	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	wizard	wizard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Sabatis	Sabatis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	guile	guile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	owed	owe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	hate	hate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	prop	prop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
23	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
28	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
32	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
33	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	Lacote	Lacote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’s	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	back	back	ADV	RB	_	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **owe** | past | old Sabatis's guile | hate and the prop stick | Lacote |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal hate=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | past | the magic arts of wizard foe through old Sabatis's guile |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | the magic arts of wizard foe through old Sabatis's guile *not said here* | the great trap Drop |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=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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