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title: Now this is all the truth, And ’twas a wondrous thing, As ever yet w… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Now this is all the truth, And ’twas a wondrous thing, As ever yet was told. Who acts: this, wondrous thing. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 98

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Now this is all the truth, And ’twas a wondrous thing, As ever yet was told.

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**Who acts:** this, wondrous thing · **What happens:** be, tell · **To what, where:** truth, As · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (this, wondrous thing), 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:pg78673:18:98
# text = Now this is all the truth, And ’twas a wondrous thing, As ever yet was told.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	’	'	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	As	As	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
16	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	17	advmod	_	_
17	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | this | all truth |  |  | now | twas  ’ *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive | a wondrous thing *not said here* | As |  |  | yet; ever |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |

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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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