---
title: _miʿkumwessuk_; a small spirit normally, which has the power, howeve… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: _miʿkumwessuk_; a small spirit normally, which has the power, however, of increasing its stature at will. Who acts: small spirit. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/21/183/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Kulóskap the master, and other Algonki…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/) / [Opening, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/21/) / 183

# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 183

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
\_miʿkumwessuk\_; a small spirit normally, which has the power, however, of increasing its stature at will.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** small spirit · **What happens:** have, increase · **To what, where:** power, stature, small spirit

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (small spirit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78673:21:185
# text = _miʿkumwessuk_; a small spirit normally, which has the power, however, of increasing its stature at will.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	miʿkumwessuk	miʿkumwessuk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	normally	normally	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	however	however	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	increasing	increase	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	stature	stature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a small spirit  miʿkumwessuk | the power |  |  |  | however *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
| 2 | **increase** | future | a small spirit  miʿkumwessuk *not said here* | miʿkumwessuk's stature |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer stature=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 182](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/21/182/)
- next →: [sentence 184](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/21/184/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/21/)