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description: When I was young, I felt this lack, and bore in patience the very common reproach of Europeans that we had a land without ancient legends or song. Who acts: I, we. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 1, sentence 114

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When I was young, I felt this lack, and bore in patience the very common reproach of Europeans that we had a land without ancient legends or song.

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**Who acts:** I, we · **What happens:** be, feel, bear, have · **To what, where:** lack, patience, common reproach

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we), 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:pg78673:1:115
# text = When I was young, I felt this lack, and bore in patience the very common reproach of Europeans that we had a land without ancient legends or song.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	reproach	reproach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Europeans	european	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	without	without	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | young *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | past | I | this lack |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lack=Theme |
| 3 | **bear** | past | I *not said here* |  |  | patience |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **have** | past | we | the common reproach of Europeans |  |  |  | without ancient legends or song; a land *obj* | 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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