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title: This is a sacred charm Of great antiquity A secret ’mong the wolves. — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: This is a sacred charm Of great antiquity A secret ’mong the wolves. Who acts: This. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 10

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This is a sacred charm Of great antiquity A secret ’mong the wolves.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** sacred charm

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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:pg78673:19:10
# text = This is a sacred charm Of great antiquity A secret ’mong the wolves.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	antiquity	antiquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	’	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	mong	mong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	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** | present | This | a sacred charm |  |  |  | of great antiquity; the wolves *parataxis* | tree rules |

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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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