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title: This was a wondrous cry Which the sorcerers of yore Uttered to gladd… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: This was a wondrous cry Which the sorcerers of yore Uttered to gladden hearts, But now that the art is lost. Who acts: This, wondrous cry. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 31

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This was a wondrous cry Which the sorcerers of yore Uttered to gladden hearts, But now that the art is lost.

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**Who acts:** This, wondrous cry · **What happens:** be, sorcerer, utter, gladden, lose · **To what, where:** wondrous cry, sorcerers, hearts, art

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, wondrous cry), 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:pg78673:5:31
# text = This was a wondrous cry Which the sorcerers of yore Uttered to gladden hearts, But now that the art is lost.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sorcerers	sorcerer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	yore	yore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	Uttered	utter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	gladden	gladden	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	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** | past | This | a wondrous cry |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sorcerer** |  | a wondrous cry |  |  |  |  | of yore | tree rules |
| 3 | **utter** *speech: other* | participle |  | the sorcerers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **gladden** | to-infinitive |  | hearts |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus heart=Experiencer |
| 5 | **lose** | present · passive |  | the art |  |  | now |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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