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title: And having come to the chief He said, “Now give me to drink And that… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: And having come to the chief He said, “Now give me to drink And that of the best, at once, Thou villainous Thing of Mud!” Who acts: boy, Thou. 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 95

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And having come to the chief He said, “Now give me to drink And that of the best, at once, Thou villainous Thing of Mud!”

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**Who acts:** boy, Thou · **What happens:** have, come, say, give, drink, thing · **To what, where:** chief, boy · **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 (boy, Thou), 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:pg78673:9:95
# text = And having come to the chief He said, “Now give me to drink And that of the best, at once, Thou villainous Thing of Mud!”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nsubj	_	_
26	villainous	villainous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Mud	Mud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to the chief; once *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | boy | the chief *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | boy |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **drink** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **thing** *in a quote* |  | Thou |  |  |  |  | of Mud | 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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