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title: All of the olden time, All in a year it befell That Kulóskap had a f… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: All of the olden time, All in a year it befell That Kulóskap had a foe: A very evil man, A very sinful beast, A very vile magician, Who after he had tried A hundred tricks in vain Took on the form of a snake, A serpent of awful size, In hope to kill the Lord. Who acts: rock, That, evil man. A senten
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 15

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All of the olden time, All in a year it befell That Kulóskap had a foe: A very evil man, A very sinful beast, A very vile magician, Who after he had tried A hundred tricks in vain Took on the form of a snake, A serpent of awful size, In hope to kill the Lord.

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**Who acts:** rock, That, evil man · **What happens:** befall, have, try, take, kill, form · **To what, where:** foe, hope, hundred tricks, vain Took form, Lord, snake

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rock, That, evil man), 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:pg78673:8:15
# text = All of the olden time, All in a year it befell That Kulóskap had a foe: A very evil man, A very sinful beast, A very vile magician, Who after he had tried A hundred tricks in vain Took on the form of a snake, A serpent of awful size, In hope to kill the Lord.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
2	of	of	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	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	befell	befall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
13	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
14	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	sinful	sinful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	very	very	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	vile	vile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
35	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	acl	_	_
39	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	_
41	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
43	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
44	Took	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	amod	_	_
45	on	on	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
58	In	in	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
60	to	to	PART	TO	_	61	mark	_	_
61	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	acl	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	61	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **befall** | past | rock |  |  |  | year |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | That | a foe |  | hope |  | Kulóskap *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foe=Patient |
| 3 | **try** | past · perfect | a evil man and a vile magician and a serpent of awful size | hundred tricks |  | the vain Took form of a snake |  | Kulóskap *nsubj* | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Eventuality |
| 4 | **take** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **kill** | to-infinitive | That *not said here* | the Lord |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme |
| 7 | **form** |  |  | a snake |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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