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title: And, combing his hair, placed on it A fillet of wondrous virtue; For… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: And, combing his hair, placed on it A fillet of wondrous virtue; For when he had bound it on He became a wigʾladʾmûch A fairy and enchanter, No longer a common mortal, But one of the elfin world. Who acts: Badger. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 5, with i
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 58

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And, combing his hair, placed on it A fillet of wondrous virtue; For when he had bound it on He became a wigʾladʾmûch A fairy and enchanter, No longer a common mortal, But one of the elfin world.

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**Who acts:** Badger · **What happens:** comb, place, bind, become · **To what, where:** hair, fillet, wigʾladʾmûch

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Badger), 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:pg78673:5:58
# text = And, combing his hair, placed on it A fillet of wondrous virtue; For when he had bound it on He became a wigʾladʾmûch A fairy and enchanter, No longer a common mortal, But one of the elfin world.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	combing	comb	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fillet	fillet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	virtue	virtue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	wigʾladʾmûch	wigʾladʾmûch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	xcomp	_	_
27	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	xcomp	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	enchanter	enchanter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	No	no	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	36	advmod	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	mortal	mortal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	elfin	elfin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **comb** | gerund |  | Badger's hair |  |  |  | one of the elfin world *obl* | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
| 2 | **place** | participle |  | a fillet of wondrous virtue |  | hair |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent fillet=Theme on it=Destination |
| 3 | **bind** | past · perfect | Badger | fillet |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **become** | past | Badger | a wigʾladʾmûch |  |  |  | a fairy and enchanter and a common mortal *xcomp* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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