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description: Yet ere this came to pass There was a middle time When they could change their forms To beasts or men at will; Yet more and more and more Even as men, they showed In all, the Animal. Who acts: this, middle time, men. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 10, wi
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 90

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Yet ere this came to pass There was a middle time When they could change their forms To beasts or men at will; Yet more and more and more Even as men, they showed In all, the Animal.

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**Who acts:** this, middle time, men · **What happens:** come, pass, be, change, show, form · **To what, where:** forms, all

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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 (this, middle time, 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:pg78673:10:90
# text = Yet ere this came to pass There was a middle time When they could change their forms To beasts or men at will; Yet more and more and more Even as men, they showed In all, the Animal.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	ere	ere	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
12	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	To	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	parataxis	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
28	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	33	advmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	conj	_	_
31	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
37	In	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	Animal	Animal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | this |  |  |  |  | ere *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | this *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | past | a middle time |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **change** | could | men *= man* | men's forms |  |  |  | to beasts or men | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Patient |
| 5 | **show** | past | men *= man* |  |  | all  the Animal |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **form** |  | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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