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title: The trick is probably done by some peculiar way of stooping, or is m… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The trick is probably done by some peculiar way of stooping, or is merely suggested, possibly by means of hypnotic influence. Who acts: peculiar way. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 49

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The trick is probably done by some peculiar way of stooping, or is merely suggested, possibly by means of hypnotic influence.

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**Who acts:** peculiar way · **What happens:** do, stoop, suggest, mean · **To what, where:** trick

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peculiar way), 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:pg78673:3:49
# text = The trick is probably done by some peculiar way of stooping, or is merely suggested, possibly by means of hypnotic influence.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
8	peculiar	peculiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	stooping	stoop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	suggested	suggest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	hypnotic	hypnotic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present · passive | some peculiar way | the trick |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **stoop** | gerund | some peculiar way *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present · passive | some peculiar way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | merely *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S» |
| 4 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of hypnotic influence; possibly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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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