Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 83

And his hair was plastered up To stand on high, and on The summit of it was A very long turkey tail; But what this man desired Was to be taller still.

Who acts: man · What happens: plaster up, stand, be, desire · To what, where: hair, high, long turkey tail, summit, Was

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 plastered	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hair	nmod:poss
3	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plastered	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 plastered	aux:pass
5	plastered	plaster	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 plastered	compound:prt
7	To	to	PART	_	8 stand	mark
8	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 plastered	xcomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 high	case
10	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stand	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tail	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tail	cc
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 summit	case
14	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 summit	det
15	summit	summit	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tail	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tail	obl
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 tail	cop
19	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 tail	det
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 long	advmod
21	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tail	amod
22	turkey	turkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tail	compound
23	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stand	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 desired	punct
25	But	but	CCONJ	_	29 desired	cc
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 desired	obj
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 man	det
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 desired	nsubj
29	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 plastered	conj
30	Was	Was	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 desired	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	33 taller	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 taller	cop
33	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 desired	xcomp
34	still	still	ADV	_	33 taller	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 plastered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plaster up	past · passive		Lord's hair				tree rules
2	stand	to-infinitive			high			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on high=Location
3	is a	past		a long turkey tail	the summit		of hair	tree rules
4	desire	past	this man	Was			what obj	tree rules
5	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	this man not said here			still	tall property	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 6, sentence 83

The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 83