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title: And since that time our tribe With all the Indian folk Who once migh… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: And since that time our tribe With all the Indian folk Who once might have become A great and glorious race, Have dwindled down into A very little folk. Who acts: Indian folk. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 119

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And since that time our tribe With all the Indian folk Who once might have become A great and glorious race, Have dwindled down into A very little folk.

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**Who acts:** Indian folk · **What happens:** become, dwindle down · **To what, where:** great race, little folk, time tribe

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indian folk), 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:pg78673:18:119
# text = And since that time our tribe With all the Indian folk Who once might have become A great and glorious race, Have dwindled down into A very little folk.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	since	since	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	With	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
13	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	16	advmod	_	_
14	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux	_	_
16	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	Have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux	_	_
24	dwindled	dwindle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	down	down	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	very	very	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | might · perfect | all Indian folk | a great race |  |  |  | once *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **dwindle down** | infinitive · perfect |  | a great race *not said here* |  | a little folk |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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