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title: But how this mystery was, No one can understand, Though some explain… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: But how this mystery was, No one can understand, Though some explain it thus: As Man was made the first, All creatures first were men, But as they gave themselves To this or that desire Like that of animals, And all their souls to it, So were they changed to brutes. Who acts: one, some, men. A sente
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 89

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But how this mystery was, No one can understand, Though some explain it thus: As Man was made the first, All creatures first were men, But as they gave themselves To this or that desire Like that of animals, And all their souls to it, So were they changed to brutes.

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**Who acts:** one, some, men · **What happens:** be, explain, make, give, desire · **To what, where:** mystery, Man, men, desire, animals

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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 (one, some, 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:pg78673:10:89
# text = But how this mystery was, No one can understand, Though some explain it thus: As Man was made the first, All creatures first were men, But as they gave themselves To this or that desire Like that of animals, And all their souls to it, So were they changed to brutes.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	mystery	mystery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	nsubj	_	_
14	explain	explain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
27	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	29	advmod	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
35	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	34	obj	_	_
36	To	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	nsubj	_	_
38	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	det	_	_
40	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
41	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	nmod	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
47	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	49	det:predet	_	_
48	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
50	to	to	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
53	So	so	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
54	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	cop	_	_
55	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
57	to	to	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	brutes	brute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can · past | no one |  |  |  |  | understand *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | some | mystery |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 3 | **make** | past · passive |  | Man |  |  |  | all creatures *obl*; first *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | men |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **give** | past | men *= man* | men *= man* | that desire  this like that of animals |  |  | men's souls to mystery *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme to desire=Recipient |
| 6 | **is** | past | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | to brutes; change *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **desire** |  |  | animals |  |  |  | like that | nom desire «feeling transitive»: like=obl of=patient |

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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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