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title: In the long time ago, When people ever lived In the red morning ligh… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: In the long time ago, When people ever lived In the red morning light Or ever the day of man had come; Before the sun had risen And ere the Eastern land Was peopled as to-day, Kulóskap, the great lord, Went far into the North Where all was snow and ice. Who acts: people, sun. A sentence of «Kulóskap
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 27

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In the long time ago, When people ever lived In the red morning light Or ever the day of man had come; Before the sun had risen And ere the Eastern land Was peopled as to-day, Kulóskap, the great lord, Went far into the North Where all was snow and ice.

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**Who acts:** people, sun · **What happens:** live, come, rise, ere, people, go · **To what, where:** red morning light, day, Eastern land, snow

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, sun), 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:pg78673:13:27
# text = In the long time ago, When people ever lived In the red morning light Or ever the day of man had come; Before the sun had risen And ere the Eastern land Was peopled as to-day, Kulóskap, the great lord, Went far into the North Where all was snow and ice.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
5	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
10	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	parataxis	_	_
11	In	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
25	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	risen	rise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	parataxis	_	_
30	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	ere	ere	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	peopled	people	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	ccomp	_	_
37	as	as	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	Went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
49	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	48	advmod	_	_
50	into	into	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	49	obl	_	_
54	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	56	det	_	_
55	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	cop	_	_
56	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	48	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | people |  |  | the red morning light or the day | ever |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location |
| 2 | **come** | past · perfect |  | the day *not said here* |  |  |  | of man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of man=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **rise** | past · perfect | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ere** | past | the sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **people** | past · passive |  | the Eastern land |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  | time | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is a** | past |  | all snow and ice |  |  |  | ice *conj* | tree rules |

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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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