Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 16
Weary Nipon Was weary no longer; Her heart grew lighter, Her hair grew darker, Her face was fairer, Brighter and younger, Thus becoming All she had been In her early beauty.
Who acts: heart, hair, face · What happens: grow, be, become · To what, where: early beauty
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, hair, face), 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 | Weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Nipon | amod |
| 2 | Nipon | Nipon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 weary | nsubj |
| 3 | Was | Was | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 weary | compound |
| 4 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | ADV | _ | 6 longer | advmod |
| 6 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 weary | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 grew | punct |
| 8 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heart | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grew | nsubj |
| 10 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 weary | conj |
| 11 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 grew | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 grew | punct |
| 13 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hair | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grew | nsubj |
| 15 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 grew | conj |
| 16 | darker | dark | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 grew | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fairer | punct |
| 18 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 face | nmod:poss |
| 19 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fairer | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 fairer | cop |
| 21 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 darker | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Brighter | punct |
| 23 | Brighter | bright | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 fairer | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 younger | cc |
| 25 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 Brighter | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 becoming | punct |
| 27 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 28 becoming | advmod |
| 28 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 grew | advcl |
| 29 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 beauty | det |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 beauty | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 beauty | aux |
| 32 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 beauty | cop |
| 33 | In | in | ADP | _ | 36 beauty | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 35 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 beauty | amod |
| 36 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 becoming | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 weary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Nipon's heart | light property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | Nipon's hair | dark property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Nipon's face | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | Nipon's face not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | become | gerund | Nipon's hair not said here | thus property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is | past · perfect | heart | Nipon's early beauty | Nipon nmod:poss | 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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