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title: When Kulóskap the Master Came into this world of ours, Or the Land o… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: When Kulóskap the Master Came into this world of ours, Or the Land of the Wabanaki, It was full of giants and monsters, Sorcerers, dwarfs and demons, Mighty beasts and men, Fiends and the Indian devils, And, worst of all, the witches, And worst among them Pûjinskwes, A word which means “The Pitcher.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 108

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When Kulóskap the Master Came into this world of ours, Or the Land of the Wabanaki, It was full of giants and monsters, Sorcerers, dwarfs and demons, Mighty beasts and men, Fiends and the Indian devils, And, worst of all, the witches, And worst among them Pûjinskwes, A word which means “The Pitcher.”

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**Who acts:** world, word · **What happens:** be, mean · **To what, where:** Pitcher

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world, word), 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:pg78673:11:108
# text = When Kulóskap the Master Came into this world of ours, Or the Land of the Wabanaki, It was full of giants and monsters, Sorcerers, dwarfs and demons, Mighty beasts and men, Fiends and the Indian devils, And, worst of all, the witches, And worst among them Pûjinskwes, A word which means “The Pitcher.”
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Came	Came	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	ours	our	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Wabanaki	Wabanaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	monsters	monster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	Sorcerers	sorcerer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	demons	demon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	Mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	Fiends	fiend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	devils	devil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	appos	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
53	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
54	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	57	nsubj	_	_
55	among	among	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nmod	_	_
57	Pûjinskwes	Pûjinskwes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
59	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	appos	_	_
61	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	62	nsubj	_	_
62	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	60	acl:relcl	_	_
63	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	65	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	Pitcher	Pitcher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	62	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | world |  |  |  |  | of giants and monsters and Sorcerers and dwarfs and demons and Mighty beasts and men and Fiends and the Indian devils; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | a word | the Pitcher |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pitcher=Topic |

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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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