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title: For the Indian sagas, or legends, or traditions were, in fact, all s… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: For the Indian sagas, or legends, or traditions were, in fact, all songs; as is the case to this day with similar lore in Italy. Who acts: traditions. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 1, sentence 88

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For the Indian sagas, or legends, or traditions were, in fact, all songs; as is the case to this day with similar lore in Italy.

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**Who acts:** traditions · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** fact

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (traditions), 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:pg78673:1:89
# text = For the Indian sagas, or legends, or traditions were, in fact, all songs; as is the case to this day with similar lore in Italy.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sagas	saga	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | traditions |  |  | fact and all songs |  | all songs *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  | day | as the case | 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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