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title: Wonderful traditions Of the olden time; Very old indeed, Ere the wor… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Wonderful traditions Of the olden time; Very old indeed, Ere the world began: Who acts: Wonderful traditions. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 118

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Wonderful traditions Of the olden time; Very old indeed, Ere the world began:

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**Who acts:** Wonderful traditions · **What happens:** begin

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wonderful traditions), 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:pg78673:3:118
# text = Wonderful traditions Of the olden time; Very old indeed, Ere the world began:
1	Wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
3	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	olden	olden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
10	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Ere	Ere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
15	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Wonderful traditions of the olden time  the world and Ere |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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