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title: This time the Master told Tales of the ancient time In the old giant… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: This time the Master told Tales of the ancient time In the old giant tongue Once spoken by the gods-- Magic and wonder tales. Who acts: Master, ancient time. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 43

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This time the Master told Tales of the ancient time In the old giant tongue Once spoken by the gods-- Magic and wonder tales.

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**Who acts:** Master, ancient time · **What happens:** tell, speak, wonder · **To what, where:** Tales, old giant tongue · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Master, ancient time), 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:pg78673:13:43
# text = This time the Master told Tales of the ancient time In the old giant tongue Once spoken by the gods-- Magic and wonder tales.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	In	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	17	advmod	_	_
17	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Magic	Magic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	wonder	wonder	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
25	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the Master | Tales of the ancient time in the old giant tongue |  |  | time |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle |  | the old giant tongue *not said here* |  |  |  | by the gods; once *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | present | the Master *not said here* | tales |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** |  | the ancient time in the old giant tongue |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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