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title: The latter on hearing of the murder could think only of vengeance, a… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The latter on hearing of the murder could think only of vengeance, and positively refused to listen to the Passamaquoddy chief’s attempt at reconciliation. Who acts: latter, Passamaquoddy chief. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 57

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The latter on hearing of the murder could think only of vengeance, and positively refused to listen to the Passamaquoddy chief’s attempt at reconciliation.

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**Who acts:** latter, Passamaquoddy chief · **What happens:** think, refuse, not listen, attempt · **To what, where:** reconciliation

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (latter, Passamaquoddy chief), 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:pg78673:2:57
# text = The latter on hearing of the murder could think only of vengeance, and positively refused to listen to the Passamaquoddy chief’s attempt at reconciliation.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	murder	murder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	positively	positively	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Passamaquoddy	Passamaquoddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	reconciliation	reconciliation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | could | the latter |  |  |  |  | of the murder; of vengeance; on hearing | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on hearing=Topic |
| 2 | **refuse** | past | the latter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | positively *property* | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **listen** | to-infinitive | the latter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the Passamaquoddy chief's attempt at reconciliation | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to attempt=Theme |
| 4 | **attempt** |  | the Passamaquoddy chief |  |  | reconciliation |  |  | nom attempt «act transitive»: poss=agent at=place |

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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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