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title: And his hair was plastered up To stand on high, and on The summit of… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 83

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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.

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

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78673:6:83
# text = 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.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	plastered	plaster	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	To	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	summit	summit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
19	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	turkey	turkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
25	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	29	obj	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
30	Was	Was	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
33	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	xcomp	_	_
34	still	still	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 |

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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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