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title: Kulóskap was first, First and greatest, To come into our land-- Into… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Kulóskap was first, First and greatest, To come into our land-- Into Nova Scotia, Canada, Into Maine, into Wabanaki, The land of sunrise, or light. Who acts: Kulóskap. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 36

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Kulóskap was first, First and greatest, To come into our land-- Into Nova Scotia, Canada, Into Maine, into Wabanaki, The land of sunrise, or light.

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**Who acts:** Kulóskap · **What happens:** be, come · **To what, where:** light, land

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kulóskap), 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:pg78673:4:36
# text = Kulóskap was first, First and greatest, To come into our land-- Into Nova Scotia, Canada, Into Maine, into Wabanaki, The land of sunrise, or light.
1	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	To	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	Into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Nova	Nova	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Scotia	Scotia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	Into	Into	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Maine	Maine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Wabanaki	Wabanaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Kulóskap |  |  |  |  | first, great *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | to-infinitive | Kulóskap *not said here* | light |  | our land |  | into Nova Scotia  Into Maine; into Wabanaki | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into land=Initial\_Location into scotia=Destination |

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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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