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title: This is shown in the conception of the young magician, or poet, so g… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: This is shown in the conception of the young magician, or poet, so gifted though _blind_ that his mother could not determine whether he saw all things by _clairvoyance_ or natural vision. Who acts: mother, Tamaquah. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18, wit
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 25

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This is shown in the conception of the young magician, or poet, so gifted though \_blind\_ that his mother could not determine whether he saw all things by \_clairvoyance\_ or natural vision.

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**Who acts:** mother, Tamaquah · **What happens:** show, gift, not determine, see, conceive · **To what, where:** This, blind \_, things, young magician

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, Tamaquah), 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:pg78673:18:25
# text = This is shown in the conception of the young magician, or poet, so gifted though _blind_ that his mother could not determine whether he saw all things by _clairvoyance_ or natural vision.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	conception	conception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	gifted	gift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
17	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	determine	determine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
27	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	clairvoyance	clairvoyance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	34	punct	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present · passive |  | This |  |  |  | in the conception of the young magician or poet | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in conception=Topic |
| 2 | **gift** | participle |  | blind \_ |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **determine** | could | Tamaquah's mother | blind \_ |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | past | Tamaquah | all things |  |  |  | by clairvoyance or natural vision | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
| 5 | **conceive** |  |  | the young magician |  |  |  |  | nom conception «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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