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title: We bewailed our wretched poverty when we had in our lap a casket ful… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: We bewailed our wretched poverty when we had in our lap a casket full of treasure which we would not take the pains to open. Who acts: We. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 1, sentence 116

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We bewailed our wretched poverty when we had in our lap a casket full of treasure which we would not take the pains to open.

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** bewail, have, not take, open · **To what, where:** wretched poverty, casket, lap

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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 (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:pg78673:1:117
# text = We bewailed our wretched poverty when we had in our lap a casket full of treasure which we would not take the pains to open.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bewailed	bewail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	lap	lap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	casket	casket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
14	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	appos	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bewail** | past | We | our wretched poverty |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer poverty=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | past | we | a casket |  | our lap |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent casket=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **take** | would | we | a casket |  |  |  | the pains *obj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument which=Theme pain=Destination |
| 4 | **open** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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