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title: Now when the ways of men And of beasts became so evil, So false, pro… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Now when the ways of men And of beasts became so evil, So false, proud and ferocious, Kulóskap as their lord Was angered at their sin, Yet bore it as a god Till all his love was gone; As oil spreads over the sea Till all is thinned away. Who acts: ways, Was, love, oil. A sentence of «Kulóskap the ma
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 59

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Now when the ways of men And of beasts became so evil, So false, proud and ferocious, Kulóskap as their lord Was angered at their sin, Yet bore it as a god Till all his love was gone; As oil spreads over the sea Till all is thinned away.

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**Who acts:** ways, Was, love, oil, man · **What happens:** become, anger, bear, be, spread, thin away · **To what, where:** lord, sin, sea, all

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ways, Was, love, oil), 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:pg78673:13:59
# text = Now when the ways of men And of beasts became so evil, So false, proud and ferocious, Kulóskap as their lord Was angered at their sin, Yet bore it as a god Till all his love was gone; As oil spreads over the sea Till all is thinned away.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	So	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	ferocious	ferocious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	Was	Was	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	angered	anger	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	Till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
38	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	40	det:predet	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
42	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
45	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
46	spreads	spread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
47	over	over	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
50	Till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
51	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	53	nsubj:pass	_	_
52	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux:pass	_	_
53	thinned	thin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	advcl	_	_
54	away	away	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the ways of men and beasts |  |  |  | now | evil *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **anger** | participle | Was | beasts's lord *not said here* |  | beasts's sin |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus lord=Experiencer |
| 3 | **bear** | past | the ways of men and beasts *not said here* | sin |  |  |  | as a god | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | man's love |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **spread** | present | oil |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=Location |
| 6 | **thin away** | present · passive |  | all |  |  |  | away *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 7 | **love** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling 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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