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title: Weary Nipon Was weary no longer; Her heart grew lighter, Her hair gr… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 17, with its depende
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 16

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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.

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**Who acts:** heart, hair, face · **What happens:** grow, be, become · **To what, where:** early beauty

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78673:17:16
# text = 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.
1	Weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Nipon	Nipon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Was	Was	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	lighter	light	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	darker	dark	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	fairer	fair	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Brighter	bright	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
29	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	det	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
32	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	cop	_	_
33	In	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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