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title: He Who had the elfin power Knew that it had been raised By sorcery,… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: He Who had the elfin power Knew that it had been raised By sorcery, because The tempests which are due To hidden magic power Are ever worst of all. Who acts: Tis, elfin power, sorcery, tempests. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 28

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He Who had the elfin power Knew that it had been raised By sorcery, because The tempests which are due To hidden magic power Are ever worst of all.

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**Who acts:** Tis, elfin power, sorcery, tempests · **What happens:** have, know, raise, be · **To what, where:** power · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tis, elfin power, sorcery, tempests), 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:pg78673:6:28
# text = He Who had the elfin power Knew that it had been raised By sorcery, because The tempests which are due To hidden magic power Are ever worst of all.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	elfin	elfin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	Knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	_
13	By	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	sorcery	sorcery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
17	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	tempests	tempest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
21	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	25	case	_	_
22	To	to	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	acl:relcl	_	_
26	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	28	advmod	_	_
28	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	parataxis	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Tis |  |  |  |  | Who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | past | the elfin power |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **raise** | past · perfect · passive | sorcery | power |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | the tempests |  |  |  |  | due hidden magic power | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | the tempests |  |  |  | ever | of all; bad *property* | tree rules |

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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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