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title: They Can work strange deeds and sing Such songs of magic power As ch… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: They Can work strange deeds and sing Such songs of magic power As charm the wildest beasts And tame the wolf and bear And soothe the wolverine. Who acts: dwellers, magic power. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 47

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They Can work strange deeds and sing Such songs of magic power As charm the wildest beasts And tame the wolf and bear And soothe the wolverine.

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**Who acts:** dwellers, magic power · **What happens:** work, sing, tame, bear, soothe · **To what, where:** strange deeds, Such songs, wolf, wolverine

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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 (dwellers, magic 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:pg78673:5:47
# text = They Can work strange deeds and sing Such songs of magic power As charm the wildest beasts And tame the wolf and bear And soothe the wolverine.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	sing	sing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	Such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	As	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	wildest	wild	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
18	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	tame	tame	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
24	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	soothe	soothe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	wolverine	wolverine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | can | dwellers *= dweller* | strange deeds |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent deed=Material |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | dwellers *= dweller* *not said here* | Such songs of magic power |  |  |  | as charm; the wildest beasts *obj* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent song=Beneficiary beast=Theme |
| 3 | **tame** | infinitive | dwellers *= dweller* *not said here* | the wolf |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient |
| 4 | **bear** | infinitive | dwellers *= dweller* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **soothe** | infinitive | dwellers *= dweller* *not said here* | the wolverine |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wolverine=Experiencer |
| 6 | **sing** |  | magic power |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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