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title: It is not impossible, however, that in these hideous tales we have s… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: It is not impossible, however, that in these hideous tales we have some relic of far distant prehistoric days when huge serpents were not unknown. Who acts: we, huge serpents. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 70

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It is not impossible, however, that in these hideous tales we have some relic of far distant prehistoric days when huge serpents were not unknown.

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**Who acts:** we, huge serpents · **What happens:** not be, have · **To what, where:** relic, hideous tales

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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 (we, huge serpents), 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:pg78673:3:70
# text = It is not impossible, however, that in these hideous tales we have some relic of far distant prehistoric days when huge serpents were not unknown.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	however	however	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	hideous	hideous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	relic	relic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	prehistoric	prehistoric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
22	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	27	mark	_	_
23	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | however, impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | we | some relic of distant prehistoric days |  | this hideous tales |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relic=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | huge serpents |  |  |  |  | unknown *property* | tree rules |

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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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