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title: The loving nephew grievèd, Grieved in the depths of his heart, Then… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The loving nephew grievèd, Grieved in the depths of his heart, Then thought to himself: “My dear uncle, At least shall not die on bare earth. Who acts: loving nephew grievèd. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 85

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The loving nephew grievèd, Grieved in the depths of his heart, Then thought to himself: “My dear uncle, At least shall not die on bare earth.

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**Who acts:** loving nephew grievèd · **What happens:** grieve, think, not die · **To what, where:** loving nephew grievèd, depths, grievèd, least · **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 (loving nephew grievèd), 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:pg78673:15:90
# text = The loving nephew grievèd, Grieved in the depths of his heart, Then thought to himself: “My dear uncle, At least shall not die on bare earth.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	nephew	nephew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	grievèd	grievèd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Grieved	grieve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	At	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	obl	_	_
26	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grieve** | participle |  | the loving nephew grievèd *not said here* |  | the depths of grievèd's heart |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the loving nephew grievèd |  | grievèd |  | then | My dear uncle *ccomp* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **die** *in a quote* | shall | the loving nephew grievèd *not said here* |  |  | least |  | on bare earth | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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