Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 28

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 · What happens: have, know, raise, be · To what, where: power · Speech: someone speaks here

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.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 power	det
5	elfin	elfin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 power	compound
6	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Knew	nsubj
7	Knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	ccomp
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 raised	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 raised	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 raised	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 raised	aux:pass
12	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 Knew	ccomp
13	By	by	ADP	_	14 sorcery	case
14	sorcery	sorcery	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 raised	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 worst	punct
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	28 worst	mark
17	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tempests	det
18	tempests	tempest	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 worst	nsubj
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 power	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 power	cop
21	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	25 power	case
22	To	to	ADP	_	21 due	fixed
23	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 power	amod
24	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 power	compound
25	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tempests	acl:relcl
26	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 worst	cop
27	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 worst	advmod
28	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 raised	parataxis
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 all	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 worst	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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

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.

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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🌲 Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 28

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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 28