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title: [20] This is a story about Kulóskap of long ago. — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: [20] This is a story about Kulóskap of long ago. Who acts: This. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 75

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\[20\] This is a story about Kulóskap of long ago.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** story, 20

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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:pg78673:6:75
# text = [20] This is a story about Kulóskap of long ago.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
12	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | a story |  |  |  | about Kulóskap; long *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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