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title: Yet when this family Was young, Kulóskap had been Ever and truly the… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet when this family Was young, Kulóskap had been Ever and truly their friend; He had made their father his father, The brothers his brothers, the sister His sister by adoption, As Indians often do. Who acts: family, Kulóskap, father, Indians. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin p
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 40

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Yet when this family Was young, Kulóskap had been Ever and truly their friend; He had made their father his father, The brothers his brothers, the sister His sister by adoption, As Indians often do.

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**Who acts:** family, Kulóskap, father, Indians · **What happens:** be, make, do · **To what, where:** friend, father

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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 (family, Kulóskap, father, Indians), 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:pg78673:11:40
# text = Yet when this family Was young, Kulóskap had been Ever and truly their friend; He had made their father his father, The brothers his brothers, the sister His sister by adoption, As Indians often do.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	cop	_	_
11	Ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	appos	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
32	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	adoption	adoption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
39	often	often	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this family |  |  |  |  | young *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past · perfect | Kulóskap | Mteolinwuk's friend |  |  | ever | Mteolinwuk *nmod:poss*; truly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | past · perfect | father | Mteolinwuk's friend *not said here* | Mteolinwuk's father |  |  | by adoption; father's sister *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset father=Beneficiary father=Product |
| 4 | **do** | present | Indians |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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