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title: So in the greenwood they lived together; Other singers often assembl… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: So in the greenwood they lived together; Other singers often assembled, Other birds were often about them, Coming to see the beautiful stranger, Longing to try with hers their voices, But at every trial the Little Fire Flew in her melody far above them, Even as she went beyond them in beauty. Who ac
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 49

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So in the greenwood they lived together; Other singers often assembled, Other birds were often about them, Coming to see the beautiful stranger, Longing to try with hers their voices, But at every trial the Little Fire Flew in her melody far above them, Even as she went beyond them in beauty.

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**Who acts:** music, Other birds, Squʿtes · **What happens:** live together, assemble, be, come, see, long · **To what, where:** Other singers, greenwood, beautiful stranger, voices, beauty

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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 (music, Other birds, Squʿtes), 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:pg78673:17:49
# text = So in the greenwood they lived together; Other singers often assembled, Other birds were often about them, Coming to see the beautiful stranger, Longing to try with hers their voices, But at every trial the Little Fire Flew in her melody far above them, Even as she went beyond them in beauty.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	greenwood	greenwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	singers	singer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	often	often	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	often	often	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Longing	long	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	det	_	_
39	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	Fire	Fire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	Flew	Flew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	melody	melody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
47	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	49	advmod	_	_
48	above	above	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
52	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
53	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
54	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
55	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	obl	_	_
57	in	in	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live together** | past | music | Other singers |  | the greenwood |  | at every trial; together *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in greenwood=Location |
| 2 | **assemble** | participle |  | Other singers *not said here* |  |  |  | often *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | Other birds | Other singers *not said here* |  |  |  | about birds *= bird*; often *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | gerund | music *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | music *not said here* | the beautiful stranger |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus |
| 6 | **long** | gerund | music *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 7 | **try** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | music *not said here* | music's voices |  |  |  | with Squʿtes | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: agent=Agent voice=Patient with her=Theme |
| 8 | **go** | past | Squʿtes |  |  | beauty |  | beyond music | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beyond they=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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