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title: Back in the olden time There was an Indian town In which dwelt two y… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Back in the olden time There was an Indian town In which dwelt two young men, Kekwâjû the Badger, And the other Kâktugwââsis, The Little Thunder. Who acts: Indian town. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 50

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Back in the olden time There was an Indian town In which dwelt two young men, Kekwâjû the Badger, And the other Kâktugwââsis, The Little Thunder.

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**Who acts:** Indian town · **What happens:** be, dwell · **To what, where:** two young men

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indian town), 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:pg78673:5:50
# text = Back in the olden time There was an Indian town In which dwelt two young men, Kekwâjû the Badger, And the other Kâktugwââsis, The Little Thunder.
1	Back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	olden	olden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
11	In	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Kekwâjû	Kekwâjû	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Kâktugwââsis	Kâktugwââsis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Thunder	Thunder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a Indian town |  |  | there |  | the other Kâktugwââsis *parataxis* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **dwell** | past | a Indian town | two young men |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location |

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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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