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title: Ere this, there had been in the world None of the creatures which dw… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Ere this, there had been in the world None of the creatures which dwell In the water, but now they were there Of every kind. Who acts: Ere, creatures, Indians. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 7

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Ere this, there had been in the world None of the creatures which dwell In the water, but now they were there Of every kind.

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**Who acts:** Ere, creatures, Indians · **What happens:** have, be, dwell · **To what, where:** None, water, Ere

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ere, creatures, Indians), 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:pg78673:10:7
# text = Ere this, there had been in the world None of the creatures which dwell In the water, but now they were there Of every kind.
1	Ere	Ere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	None	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	5	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	dwell	dwell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	In	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	parataxis	_	_
25	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | this Ere *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | participle |  |  |  | None |  | of the creatures | tree rules |
| 3 | **dwell** | present | the creatures |  |  | the water |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | Indians *= indian* |  |  |  | now | of every kind; there *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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