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title: She grew older in an instant, She became very old indeed: A pale col… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: She grew older in an instant, She became very old indeed: A pale color rippled All over her face. Who acts: powder, pale color. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 26

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

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

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78673:16:26
# text = She grew older in an instant, She became very old indeed: A pale color rippled All over her face.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	rippled	ripple	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	All	all	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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