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title: My father was a wizard and had power To call unto his partner miles… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: My father was a wizard and had power To call unto his partner miles away. Who acts: father, power. 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 65

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My father was a wizard and had power To call unto his partner miles away.

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**Who acts:** father, power · **What happens:** be, have, call · **To what, where:** wizard, power · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (father, 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:pg78673:15:68
# text = My father was a wizard and had power To call unto his partner miles away.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	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	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	To	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	partner	partner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | My father | a wizard |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | My father *not said here* | power |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | to-infinitive | power *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto Lacote's partner miles; away *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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