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title: “I care not if he die or no,” the father answering said, And moaning… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: “I care not if he die or no,” the father answering said, And moaning with an angry moan the wizard drew away And soon was lost to sight amid the waving forest leaves. Who acts: I, son, moaning. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 72

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“I care not if he die or no,” the father answering said, And moaning with an angry moan the wizard drew away And soon was lost to sight amid the waving forest leaves.

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**Who acts:** I, son, moaning · **What happens:** not care, die, say, moan, draw away, lose · **To what, where:** father, wizard, sight amid · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, son, moaning), 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:pg78673:14:72
# text = “I care not if he die or no,” the father answering said, And moaning with an angry moan the wizard drew away And soon was lost to sight amid the waving forest leaves.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	care	care	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	answering	answer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
18	moaning	moan	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	csubj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	moan	moan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
25	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
32	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	amid	amid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	xcomp	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	amod	_	_
36	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **care** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **die** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | son |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund · passive |  | the father |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **moan** | gerund |  | the wizard |  |  |  | with a angry moan | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wizard=Theme |
| 5 | **draw away** | past | moaning |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **lose** | past · passive | moaning *not said here* | sight amid |  |  |  | the waving forest leaves *obj*; soon *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: leaf=Eventuality |
| 7 | **wave** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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