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title: The Beaver had been the foe Of the Lord in the beginning; Hence it c… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The Beaver had been the foe Of the Lord in the beginning; Hence it came that Kulóskap slew Full many of the tribe. Who acts: Beaver, mountain, Kulóskap. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 71

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The Beaver had been the foe Of the Lord in the beginning; Hence it came that Kulóskap slew Full many of the tribe.

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**Who acts:** Beaver, mountain, Kulóskap · **What happens:** be, come, slay · **To what, where:** foe, beginning, Full

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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 (Beaver, mountain, 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:pg78673:4:71
# text = The Beaver had been the foe Of the Lord in the beginning; Hence it came that Kulóskap slew Full many of the tribe.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Beaver	Beaver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	Hence	hence	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
20	Full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obj	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	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** | past · perfect | the Beaver | the foe |  |  | in the beginning | of the Lord | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | mountain |  |  |  |  | hence *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **slay** | past | Kulóskap | Full |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent full=Patient |

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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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