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title: There was a father Who had three sons and a daughter, And all were M… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a father Who had three sons and a daughter, And all were Mteolinwuk, That is, they were magicians Of terrible power, and giants; They ate men, women, and children; Yea, they did everything That was wicked and horrible; And the land grew tired of them And of all their abominations. Who acts
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 39

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There was a father Who had three sons and a daughter, And all were Mteolinwuk, That is, they were magicians Of terrible power, and giants; They ate men, women, and children; Yea, they did everything That was wicked and horrible; And the land grew tired of them And of all their abominations.

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**Who acts:** father, That, Mteolinwuk, land · **What happens:** be, have, giant, eat, do, grow · **To what, where:** three sons, Mteolinwuk, magicians, men, everything

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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 (father, That, Mteolinwuk, land), 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:pg78673:11:39
# text = There was a father Who had three sons and a daughter, And all were Mteolinwuk, That is, they were magicians Of terrible power, and giants; They ate men, women, and children; Yea, they did everything That was wicked and horrible; And the land grew tired of them And of all their abominations.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
13	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	Mteolinwuk	Mteolinwuk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	magicians	magician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
24	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
31	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
33	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
40	Yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	43	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
42	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
44	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	43	obj	_	_
45	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	47	nsubj	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
47	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	parataxis	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	54	punct	_	_
51	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
54	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
55	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	xcomp	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obl	_	_
58	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
60	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	62	det:predet	_	_
61	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
62	abominations	abomination	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a father |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | a father | three sons and a daughter |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | all Mteolinwuk and magicians |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | That | magicians |  |  |  | of terrible power; Mteolinwuk *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **giant** |  | all Mteolinwuk and magicians |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **eat** | past | Mteolinwuk | men and women and children |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |
| 7 | **do** | past | Mteolinwuk | everything |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality |
| 8 | **is** | past | That |  |  |  |  | wicked *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **be** |  | That *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **grow** | past | the land |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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