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title: When the Great Flood was coming, Kulóskap the awful prophet, Gave th… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Great Flood was coming, Kulóskap the awful prophet, Gave them full warning of it. Who acts: Great Flood. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 88

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When the Great Flood was coming, Kulóskap the awful prophet, Gave them full warning of it.

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**Who acts:** Great Flood · **What happens:** come, give, warn · **To what, where:** Kulóskap, full warning, RATTLESNAKES, Flood

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Great Flood), 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:pg78673:4:88
# text = When the Great Flood was coming, Kulóskap the awful prophet, Gave them full warning of it.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Flood	Flood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
13	Gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · progressive | the Great Flood | Kulóskap |  |  |  | the awful prophet *obl:unmarked* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past |  | full warning of Flood | RATTLESNAKES *= rattlesnake* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient warning=Theme |
| 3 | **warn** |  |  | Flood |  |  |  |  | nom warning «communication transitive»: of=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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