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title: He came into a dell Deep in the greenwood shade, Where many little f… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: He came into a dell Deep in the greenwood shade, Where many little fays, Fair little sun-ray elves, Were dancing in their joy. Who acts: many, many little fays, fays. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 35

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He came into a dell Deep in the greenwood shade, Where many little fays, Fair little sun-ray elves, Were dancing in their joy.

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**Who acts:** many, many little fays, fays · **What happens:** come, dance, joy · **To what, where:** dell, joy

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many, many little fays, fays), 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:pg78673:13:35
# text = He came into a dell Deep in the greenwood shade, Where many little fays, Fair little sun-ray elves, Were dancing in their joy.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dell	dell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	Deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	greenwood	greenwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
12	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	fays	fay	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	Fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
19	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	ray	ray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	elves	elf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	Were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	acl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | many |  |  | a dell |  | in the greenwood shade; deep *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into dell=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **dance** | past · progressive | many little fays |  |  | fays's joy |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in joy=Location |
| 3 | **joy** |  | fays *= fay* |  |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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