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title: Now ’twas the time for holding The great and yearly feast With danci… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Now ’twas the time for holding The great and yearly feast With dancing and merry games; But Kulóskap cared not to go As guest or as performer. Who acts: time, Kulóskap. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 43

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Now ’twas the time for holding The great and yearly feast With dancing and merry games; But Kulóskap cared not to go As guest or as performer.

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**Who acts:** time, Kulóskap · **What happens:** hold, care, not go · **To what, where:** great feast, twas, guest

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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 (time, 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:pg78673:8:43
# text = Now ’twas the time for holding The great and yearly feast With dancing and merry games; But Kulóskap cared not to go As guest or as performer.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	’	'	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	yearly	yearly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
13	With	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	cared	care	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
25	As	as	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	performer	performer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | gerund | the time *not said here* | the great feast |  |  |  | with dancing and merry games | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme |
| 2 | **care** | past | Kulóskap | twas *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **go** | to-infinitive | Kulóskap *not said here* | guest or performer |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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