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title: Then at last the messenger Came with a little cup Which was only jus… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then at last the messenger Came with a little cup Which was only just half full Of water, extremely foul. Who acts: little cup. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 93

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Then at last the messenger Came with a little cup Which was only just half full Of water, extremely foul.

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**Who acts:** little cup · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** last messenger

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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 (little cup), 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:pg78673:9:93
# text = Then at last the messenger Came with a little cup Which was only just half full Of water, extremely foul.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	Came	Came	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	just	just	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	16	advmod	_	_
16	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	acl:relcl	_	_
17	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	foul	foul	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | a little cup |  |  |  |  | of water; full, half *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | a little cup *not said here* |  |  |  |  | extremely *property* | tree rules |

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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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