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title: Leland compares here, however, the Old Norse statements regarding th… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Leland compares here, however, the Old Norse statements regarding their wizards, who occasionally sank into the ground and who had power to pass through earth with the same ease as through air or water (Algonquin Legends, p. 342). Who acts: Leland, Old Norse statements, power. A sentence of «Kulóska
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 50

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Leland compares here, however, the Old Norse statements regarding their wizards, who occasionally sank into the ground and who had power to pass through earth with the same ease as through air or water (Algonquin Legends, p. 342).

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**Who acts:** Leland, Old Norse statements, power · **What happens:** compare, regard, sink, have, pass · **To what, where:** ground, power, Algonquin Legends, earth

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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 (Leland, Old Norse statements, 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:pg78673:3:50
# text = Leland compares here, however, the Old Norse statements regarding their wizards, who occasionally sank into the ground and who had power to pass through earth with the same ease as through air or water (Algonquin Legends, p. 342).
1	Leland	Leland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	compares	compare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	Norse	norse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	statements	statement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
11	regarding	regard	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	wizards	wizard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	occasionally	occasionally	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
24	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
27	through	through	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
33	as	as	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
34	through	through	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
38	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	Algonquin	Algonquin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	Legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	_
43	342	342	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	42	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compare** | present | Leland |  |  | here |  | the Old Norse statements regard statements's wizards *parataxis* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **regard** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sink** | past | the Old Norse statements regard statements's wizards |  |  | the ground |  | occasionally *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | past |  | power |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **pass** | to-infinitive | power *not said here* | Algonquin Legends |  | earth |  | with the same ease; through air or water | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through earth=Initial\_Location through air=Destination |

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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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