Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 44

Now the old man, the father Of all these evil sorcerers, Had only one eye, and he Was half gray like a stony mountain; Then the Master made himself Like to the hoary old fellow; There was not between them The difference of a hair.

Who acts: father, Master · What happens: have, be, make, like · To what, where: one eye, half gray, Master, difference

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, Master), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 Had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Now	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 father	det
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Had	nsubj
8	Of	of	ADP	_	12 sorcerers	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 sorcerers	det:predet
10	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 sorcerers	det
11	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sorcerers	amod
12	sorcerers	sorcerer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 father	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 father	punct
14	Had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 difference	parataxis
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 one	advmod
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 eye	nummod
17	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Had	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gray	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 gray	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 gray	nsubj
21	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 gray	cop
22	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	23 gray	amod
23	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Had	obl
24	like	like	ADP	_	27 mountain	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 mountain	det
26	stony	stony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 mountain	amod
27	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gray	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 made	punct
29	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 made	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Master	det
31	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 made	nsubj
32	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Had	conj
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 made	obj
34	Like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 made	xcomp
35	to	to	ADP	_	39 fellow	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 fellow	det
37	hoary	hoary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 fellow	amod
38	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 fellow	amod
39	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Like	obl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 was	punct
41	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	42 was	expl
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 difference	cop
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 them	advmod
44	between	between	ADP	_	45 them	case
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 was	obl
46	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 difference	det
47	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 hair	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 hair	det
50	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 difference	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	47 difference	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the father of all evil sorcerers	one eye	now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	is a	past	father	half gray		like a stony mountain	tree rules
3	make	past	the Master	Master	then		tree rules
4	like	infinitive	Master not said here			to the hoary old fellow	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	is a	past		the difference		of a hair	tree rules

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.

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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🌲 Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 44

The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 44