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title: “O Uncle, aid me in my direst need And find for me this rascal foe,”… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: “O Uncle, aid me in my direst need And find for me this rascal foe,” he cried, “Who changes into every living thing, And thus escapes my burning righteous wrath.” Who acts: Uncle, my. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 33

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“O Uncle, aid me in my direst need And find for me this rascal foe,” he cried, “Who changes into every living thing, And thus escapes my burning righteous wrath.”

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**Who acts:** Uncle, my · **What happens:** aid, find, cry, change, escape, burn · **To what, where:** uncle, direst need, rascal foe, living thing, burning righteous wrath · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle, my), 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:pg78673:15:33
# text = “O Uncle, aid me in my direst need And find for me this rascal foe,” he cried, “Who changes into every living thing, And thus escapes my burning righteous wrath.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	aid	aid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	parataxis	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	direst	dire	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
16	rascal	rascal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
28	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	escapes	escape	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
35	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	amod	_	_
36	righteous	righteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **aid** *in a quote* | infinitive | Uncle |  | uncle | my direst need |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **find** *in a quote* | infinitive | Uncle *not said here* | this rascal foe |  |  |  | for uncle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent foe=Theme for i=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | uncle |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **change** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | into every living thing *result*; Who *nsubj* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into thing=Result |
| 5 | **escape** *in a quote* | present | uncle *not said here* | my burning righteous wrath |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wrath=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **burn** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **need** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom need «state transitive»: poss=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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