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title: All in the olden time, Or in the first of all, Of all things here on… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: All in the olden time, Or in the first of all, Of all things here on earth, Men were as animals And animals as men. Who acts: Men. 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 88

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All in the olden time, Or in the first of all, Of all things here on earth, Men were as animals And animals as men.

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**Who acts:** Men · **What happens:** be

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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 (Men), 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:pg78673:10:88
# text = All in the olden time, Or in the first of all, Of all things here on earth, Men were as animals And animals as men.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	olden	olden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	first	first	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	parataxis	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
14	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
17	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
25	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Men |  |  |  |  | as animals and animals; as men | 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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