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title: Merry Mĭpis on a bright May morning Was stretching himself in the wa… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Merry Mĭpis on a bright May morning Was stretching himself in the warm sunshine When he heard afar a wonderful music, A sound like a flute and the voice of a maiden, Rippling melodies melting in one. Who acts: bright May morning, Mĭpis, maiden Rippling melodies. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, a
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 38

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Merry Mĭpis on a bright May morning Was stretching himself in the warm sunshine When he heard afar a wonderful music, A sound like a flute and the voice of a maiden, Rippling melodies melting in one.

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**Who acts:** bright May morning, Mĭpis, maiden Rippling melodies · **What happens:** stretch, hear, ripple, melt · **To what, where:** Mĭpis, wonderful music, Merry

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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 (bright May morning, Mĭpis, maiden Rippling melodies), 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:pg78673:17:38
# text = Merry Mĭpis on a bright May morning Was stretching himself in the warm sunshine When he heard afar a wonderful music, A sound like a flute and the voice of a maiden, Rippling melodies melting in one.
1	Merry	Merry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Mĭpis	Mĭpis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
8	Was	was	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
18	afar	afar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
33	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	Rippling	ripple	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	amod	_	_
36	melodies	melody	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
37	melting	melt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	acl	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch** | gerund | a bright May morning *not said here* | Mĭpis |  |  |  | in the warm sunshine | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in sunshine=Topic |
| 2 | **hear** | past | Mĭpis | a wonderful music and a sound like a flute and the voice of a maiden Rippling melodies |  |  |  | afar *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer music=Stimulus |
| 3 | **ripple** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **melt** | gerund | a maiden Rippling melodies *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in one | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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