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title: But now that I am older grown, I have learned that this want is all… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: But now that I am older grown, I have learned that this want is all in our own ignorance and neglect of what we had only to put forth our hand to reach. Who acts: I, want, we. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 1, sentence 115

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But now that I am older grown, I have learned that this want is all in our own ignorance and neglect of what we had only to put forth our hand to reach.

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**Who acts:** I, want, we · **What happens:** grow, learn, be, have, put, reach · **To what, where:** I, own ignorance, hand

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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, want, 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:pg78673:1:116
# text = But now that I am older grown, I have learned that this want is all in our own ignorance and neglect of what we had only to put forth our hand to reach.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
16	all	all	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	ignorance	ignorance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	advcl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	neglect	neglect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nmod	_	_
25	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	only	only	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
30	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **learn** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  | now |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | this want |  |  | our own ignorance and neglect of our own ignorance and neglect of own ignorance |  | our *nmod:poss*; neglect of our own ignorance and neglect of our own ignorance and neglect *conj*; all *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | we |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **put** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | our hand |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal |
| 6 | **reach** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **neglect** |  |  | our own ignorance and neglect of our own ignorance and neglect |  |  |  |  | nom neglect «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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