Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 86

Day after day the Red Bird grew better And soon her color was as bright as ever, Until one morning when least expected, Her voice broke forth like a brook into sunshine.

Who acts: Day, color, voice · What happens: grow, be, expect, break · To what, where: sunshine

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 (Day, color, voice), 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	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 grew	nsubj
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 day	case
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Day	nmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Bird	det
5	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Bird	flat
6	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 grew	nsubj
7	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 grew	advmod
9	And	and	CCONJ	_	15 bright	cc
10	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 bright	advmod
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 color	nmod:poss
12	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bright	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 bright	cop
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 bright	advmod
15	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grew	conj
16	as	as	ADP	_	17 ever	case
17	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 bright	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 morning	punct
19	Until	until	ADP	_	21 morning	case
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 morning	nummod
21	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grew	obl:unmarked
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 expected	advmod
23	least	least	ADV	Degree=Sup	24 expected	advmod
24	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 morning	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 broke	punct
26	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 voice	nmod:poss
27	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 broke	nsubj
28	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grew	conj
29	forth	forth	ADV	_	28 broke	advmod
30	like	like	ADP	_	32 brook	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 brook	det
32	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 broke	obl
33	into	into	ADP	_	34 sunshine	case
34	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 broke	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Day after day	morning	the Red Bird nsubj; well property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	life's color		bright, soon property	tree rules
3	expect	participle			least property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	break	past	life's voice		into sunshine result; like a brook; forth property	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into sunshine=Result

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 17, sentence 86

The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 86