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title: Day after day the Red Bird grew better And soon her color was as bri… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 17, with its dependency 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 86

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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.

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

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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 (Day, color, voice), 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:pg78673:17:86
# text = 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.
1	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
6	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
9	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	Until	until	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
23	least	least	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	24	advmod	_	_
24	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
29	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	like	like	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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