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title: The wizards here eat their murdered comrade, evidently with the idea… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The wizards here eat their murdered comrade, evidently with the idea of absorbing into themselves some or all of his power. Who acts: wizards, idea. 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 54

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The wizards here eat their murdered comrade, evidently with the idea of absorbing into themselves some or all of his power.

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**Who acts:** wizards, idea · **What happens:** eat, murder, absorb · **To what, where:** murdered comrade

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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 (wizards, idea), 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:pg78673:3:54
# text = The wizards here eat their murdered comrade, evidently with the idea of absorbing into themselves some or all of his power.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wizards	wizard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	murdered	murder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	comrade	comrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	evidently	evidently	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	absorbing	absorb	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obl	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	xcomp	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | the wizards | wizards's murdered comrade |  |  |  | the idea *parataxis* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comrade=Patient |
| 2 | **murder** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **absorb** | gerund | the idea *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into wizards *= wizard* | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal |

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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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