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description: For, when the wedding came In the evening of that day, There was a general dance, A wild festivity, At which the wizard bold Astonished every one; For as he danced around On the hard beaten floor, They saw his feet sink in Deeper at every step, And ever deeper still As the strange dance went on, Sti
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 24

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For, when the wedding came In the evening of that day, There was a general dance, A wild festivity, At which the wizard bold Astonished every one; For as he danced around On the hard beaten floor, They saw his feet sink in Deeper at every step, And ever deeper still As the strange dance went on, Still ploughing up the ground In ridges rough and high, Forming a trench, until His head and nothing more Could from without be seen.

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**Who acts:** wedding, wizard bold, bold, dance, feet, strange dance · **What happens:** come, astonish, one, be, beat, see · **To what, where:** wild festivity, hard beaten floor, Deeper, ground, ridges, trench · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wedding, wizard bold, bold, dance), 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:pg78673:6:24
# text = For, when the wedding came In the evening of that day, There was a general dance, A wild festivity, At which the wizard bold Astonished every one; For as he danced around On the hard beaten floor, They saw his feet sink in Deeper at every step, And ever deeper still As the strange dance went on, Still ploughing up the ground In ridges rough and high, Forming a trench, until His head and nothing more Could from without be seen.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
7	In	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
14	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	festivity	festivity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	At	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	wizard	wizard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	bold	bold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	Astonished	astonish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
30	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
33	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
37	around	around	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	On	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
40	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
41	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	amod	_	_
42	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	parataxis	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nsubj	_	_
48	sink	sink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	ccomp	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	Deeper	Deeper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
51	at	at	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	53	det	_	_
53	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
55	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
56	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	57	advmod	_	_
57	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	45	parataxis	_	_
58	still	still	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	_
59	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	63	mark	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
61	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nsubj	_	_
63	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	conj	_	_
64	on	on	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	_
66	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	67	advmod	_	_
67	ploughing	plough	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	63	advcl	_	_
68	up	up	ADP	RP	_	67	compound:prt	_	_
69	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	70	det	_	_
70	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	obj	_	_
71	In	in	ADP	IN	_	72	case	_	_
72	ridges	ridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	67	obl	_	_
73	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	72	amod	_	_
74	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	75	cc	_	_
75	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	73	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	77	punct	_	_
77	Forming	form	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	73	advcl	_	_
78	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	79	det	_	_
79	trench	trench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	77	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
80	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	91	punct	_	_
81	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	87	mark	_	_
82	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	83	nmod:poss	_	_
83	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	87	nsubj	_	_
84	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	85	cc	_	_
85	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	83	conj	_	_
86	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	83	amod	_	_
87	Could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	91	aux	_	_
88	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	91	mark	_	_
89	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	91	mark	_	_
90	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	91	aux:pass	_	_
91	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
92	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the wedding |  |  |  | evening |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **astonish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **one** |  | the wizard bold |  |  | a wild festivity |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | bold |  |  | the hard beaten floor |  | around, dance *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **beat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **see** | past | dance |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **sink** | present | bold's feet |  |  | Deeper |  | at every step | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **go on** | past | the strange dance |  |  |  | still |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **plough up** | gerund | the strange dance *not said here* | the ground |  | ridges | still |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent ground=Initial\_Location |
| 10 | **form** | gerund | the strange dance *not said here* | a trench |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location trench=Theme |
| 11 | **see** | could · passive | dance *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |

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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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