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title: Then it happened in after years That Kulóskap came one day To visit… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then it happened in after years That Kulóskap came one day To visit his uncle, and saw A babe which uttered a word. Who acts: it, Kulóskap, babe. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 10

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Then it happened in after years That Kulóskap came one day To visit his uncle, and saw A babe which uttered a word.

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**Who acts:** it, Kulóskap, babe · **What happens:** happen, come, visit, see, utter · **To what, where:** uncle, babe, word

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9. 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, babe), 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:pg78673:9:10
# text = Then it happened in after years That Kulóskap came one day To visit his uncle, and saw A babe which uttered a word.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	To	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	babe	babe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	uttered	utter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | it |  |  |  | then; year |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | that Kulóskap |  |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **visit** | to-infinitive | that Kulóskap *not said here* | Kulóskap's uncle |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent uncle=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **see** | past | that Kulóskap *not said here* | a babe |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer babe=Stimulus |
| 5 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | a babe | a word |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |

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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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