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title: There swam the damsels in abandoned glee, Their hair all streaming w… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: There swam the damsels in abandoned glee, Their hair all streaming with a loathly snake. Who acts: all. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 28

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There swam the damsels in abandoned glee, Their hair all streaming with a loathly snake.

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**Who acts:** all · **What happens:** swim, abandon, stream · **To what, where:** damsels, abandoned glee

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all), 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:pg78673:14:28
# text = There swam the damsels in abandoned glee, Their hair all streaming with a loathly snake.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	damsels	damsel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	abandoned	abandon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	glee	glee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	nsubj	_	_
12	streaming	stream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	loathly	loathly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | past |  | the damsels |  | abandoned glee and glee's hair; there |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme damsel=Trajectory |
| 2 | **abandon** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stream** | gerund | all |  |  |  |  | with a loathly snake | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with snake=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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