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title: In the earliest time on the greatest mountain Lived merry Mĭpis, the… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: In the earliest time on the greatest mountain Lived merry Mĭpis, the Little Leaf; When spring is coming and sunlight is shining He climbs a tree, and there, all summer, Dressed in green he rocks in the branches, Listens all day to the birds and the breezes, And goes to sleep to the song of the owl. 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 35

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In the earliest time on the greatest mountain Lived merry Mĭpis, the Little Leaf; When spring is coming and sunlight is shining He climbs a tree, and there, all summer, Dressed in green he rocks in the branches, Listens all day to the birds and the breezes, And goes to sleep to the song of the owl.

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**Who acts:** spring, sunlight, owl · **What happens:** live, come, shine, climb, dress, rock · **To what, where:** merry Mĭpis, tree, green, Listens, branches

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spring, sunlight, owl), 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:pg78673:17:35
# text = In the earliest time on the greatest mountain Lived merry Mĭpis, the Little Leaf; When spring is coming and sunlight is shining He climbs a tree, and there, all summer, Dressed in green he rocks in the branches, Listens all day to the birds and the breezes, And goes to sleep to the song of the owl.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	earliest	early	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	Lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Mĭpis	Mĭpis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
18	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
25	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	climbs	climb	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	det	_	_
34	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	Dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	green	green	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	Listens	Listen	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	_
46	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	47	det	_	_
47	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	appos	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	breezes	breeze	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
57	to	to	PART	TO	_	58	mark	_	_
58	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	advcl	_	_
59	to	to	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	_
62	of	of	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  | merry Mĭpis |  |  | time |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | present · progressive | spring |  |  | there | summer |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **shine** | present · progressive | sunlight |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **climb** | present | sunlight | a tree |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme |
| 5 | **dress** | participle | spring *not said here* |  |  | green |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **rock** |  | sunlight | Listens |  | the branches |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **go** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **sleep** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to the song of the owl | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **sing** |  | the owl |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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