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title: My grandchild, you have been My death at last--for now I cannot leav… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: My grandchild, you have been My death at last--for now I cannot leave the land; I shall swim in the sea no more!” Who acts: you, grandchild, I. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 121

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My grandchild, you have been My death at last--for now I cannot leave the land; I shall swim in the sea no more!”

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**Who acts:** you, grandchild, I · **What happens:** be, not leave, swim · **To what, where:** death, last, land, sea

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, grandchild, I), 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:pg78673:10:121
# text = My grandchild, you have been My death at last--for now I cannot leave the land; I shall swim in the sea no more!”
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	grandchild	grandchild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
7	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	obl	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	no	no	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present · perfect | you | My death |  | last |  | My *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **leave** | can | My grandchild | the land |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent land=Theme for now=Recipient |
| 3 | **swim** | shall | I |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Trajectory |

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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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