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title: Long, long years ago When wizards were not few There happened near o… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Long, long years ago When wizards were not few There happened near our town A war of which I’ll tell. Who acts: wizards, I. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 156

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Long, long years ago When wizards were not few There happened near our town A war of which I’ll tell.

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**Who acts:** wizards, I · **What happens:** not be, happen, tell · **To what, where:** town · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wizards, I), 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:pg78673:14:156
# text = Long, long years ago When wizards were not few There happened near our town A war of which I’ll tell.
1	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
6	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
7	wizards	wizard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
13	near	near	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:unmarked	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | wizards |  |  |  |  | ago, few *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **happen** | past | wizards *not said here* |  |  | our town  a war; there |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near town=Location |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | future | I |  |  |  |  | of a war | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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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