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title: It happened on a time When Kulóskap was afar, The Sable broke his fl… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: It happened on a time When Kulóskap was afar, The Sable broke his flute, And, deeply crushed with grief, Would not return again, But wandered far away Into the wilderness. Who acts: It, Kulóskap, Sable, grief. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 8, with its d
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 17

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It happened on a time When Kulóskap was afar, The Sable broke his flute, And, deeply crushed with grief, Would not return again, But wandered far away Into the wilderness.

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**Who acts:** It, Kulóskap, Sable, grief · **What happens:** happen, be, break, crush, not return, wander · **To what, where:** flute, wilderness

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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 (It, Kulóskap, Sable, grief), 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:pg78673:8:17
# text = It happened on a time When Kulóskap was afar, The Sable broke his flute, And, deeply crushed with grief, Would not return again, But wandered far away Into the wilderness.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	afar	afar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Sable	Sable	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	crushed	crush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	Would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	again	again	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
31	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	_
32	away	away	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
33	Into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | It |  |  |  | time |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | Kulóskap |  |  |  |  | afar *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **break** | past | the Sable | Kulóskap's flute |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flute=Patient |
| 4 | **crush** | participle | the Sable *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with grief; deeply *property* | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with grief=Instrument |
| 5 | **not** **return** | would | grief *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **wander** | past |  |  |  | the wilderness |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wilderness=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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