Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 26

She grew older in an instant, She became very old indeed: A pale color rippled All over her face.

Who acts: powder, pale color · What happens: grow, become, ripple · To what, where: instant, face

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (powder, pale color), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 grew	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 instant	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 instant	det
6	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grew	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 became	punct
8	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 became	nsubj
9	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grew	parataxis
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 old	advmod
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 became	xcomp
12	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	11 old	advmod
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 rippled	punct
14	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 color	det
15	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 color	amod
16	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rippled	nsubj
17	rippled	ripple	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 became	conj
18	All	all	ADV	_	21 face	advmod
19	over	over	ADP	_	21 face	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 face	nmod:poss
21	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rippled	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	powder		a instant	old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in instant=Location
2	become	past	powder			old property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	ripple	past	a pale color	powder's face			vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location face=Theme

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 26