Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 35
He came into a dell Deep in the greenwood shade, Where many little fays, Fair little sun-ray elves, Were dancing in their joy.
Who acts: many, many little fays, fays · What happens: come, dance, joy · To what, where: dell, joy
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many, many little fays, fays), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 dell | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dell | det |
| 5 | dell | dell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | Deep | deep | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 shade | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shade | det |
| 9 | greenwood | greenwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shade | compound |
| 10 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 dancing | punct |
| 12 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 dancing | advmod |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fays | amod |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fays | amod |
| 15 | fays | fay | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 dancing | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 elves | punct |
| 17 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 elves | amod |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 elves | amod |
| 19 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ray | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 sun | punct |
| 21 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 elves | compound |
| 22 | elves | elf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fays | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 elves | punct |
| 24 | Were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 dancing | aux |
| 25 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 shade | acl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 joy | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 joy | nmod:poss |
| 28 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dancing | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | many | a dell | in the greenwood shade; deep property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into dell=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | dance | past · progressive | many little fays | fays's joy | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in joy=Location | ||||
| 3 | joy | fays = fay | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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.
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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