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title: These Elves would always work at night along the river shore, And fa… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: These Elves would always work at night along the river shore, And fashion little wheels of clay and leave them on the bank. Who acts: Elves. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 39

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These Elves would always work at night along the river shore, And fashion little wheels of clay and leave them on the bank.

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**Who acts:** Elves · **What happens:** work, leave · **To what, where:** ELVES, bank

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Elves), 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:pg78673:16:39
# text = These Elves would always work at night along the river shore, And fashion little wheels of clay and leave them on the bank.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	Elves	Elf	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	along	along	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	fashion	fashioned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | would | this Elves |  |  |  | night | along the river shore and fashion little wheels of clay; always *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **leave** | infinitive | this Elves *not said here* | ELVES *= elf* |  | the bank |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme on bank=Location |

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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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