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title: Then the messenger told How his people were pining Near dead of thei… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the messenger told How his people were pining Near dead of their thirst, Which seemed hugely to please The monster, who grinned for joy, Till at last he rose to his feet. Who acts: messenger, people, thirst, monster. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 79

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Then the messenger told How his people were pining Near dead of their thirst, Which seemed hugely to please The monster, who grinned for joy, Till at last he rose to his feet.

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**Who acts:** messenger, people, thirst, monster · **What happens:** tell, pine, seem, please, grin, rise · **To what, where:** dead, monster, feet · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (messenger, people, thirst, monster), 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:pg78673:9:79
# text = Then the messenger told How his people were pining Near dead of their thirst, Which seemed hugely to please The monster, who grinned for joy, Till at last he rose to his feet.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	pining	pine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
10	Near	near	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	hugely	hugely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
21	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	grinned	grin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	Till	till	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the messenger |  |  |  | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **pine** | past · progressive | messenger's people |  |  | dead |  | of people's thirst | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **seem** | past | people's thirst |  |  |  |  | hugely *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **please** | to-infinitive | people's thirst *not said here* | the monster |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus monster=Experiencer |
| 5 | **grin** | past | the monster |  |  |  |  | for joy | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **rise** | past | messenger |  |  | messenger's feet | till last |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **thirst** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom thirst «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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