Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 93
Then at last the messenger Came with a little cup Which was only just half full Of water, extremely foul.
Who acts: little cup · What happens: be · To what, where: last messenger
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.
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 messenger | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 messenger | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 messenger | amod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 messenger | det |
| 5 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | Came | Came | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 messenger | appos |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 cup | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cup | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cup | amod |
| 10 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 messenger | nmod |
| 11 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 full | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 full | cop |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 full | advmod |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 half | advmod |
| 15 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 16 full | advmod |
| 16 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cup | acl:relcl |
| 17 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 full | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 foul | punct |
| 20 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 21 foul | advmod |
| 21 | foul | foul | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 full | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 messenger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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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