Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 57

And the going down Or descent on the other side Was more ungrateful still, For ’twas all a precipice With broken, crumbly edge Which overhung a gulf; Yet it was worse beyond.

Who acts: going, broken crumbly edge, gulf · What happens: go down, be, overhang · To what, where: other side, gulf

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (going, broken crumbly edge, gulf), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 going	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 going	det
3	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 ungrateful	csubj
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 going	advmod
5	Or	or	CCONJ	_	6 descent	cc
6	descent	descent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 going	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 side	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 side	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 side	amod
10	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 going	obl
11	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ungrateful	cop
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 ungrateful	advmod
13	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	still	still	ADV	_	13 ungrateful	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ungrateful	punct
16	For	for	ADP	_	18 twas	case
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 For	punct
18	twas	twa	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ungrateful	obl
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 precipice	det:predet
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 precipice	det
21	precipice	precipice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 twas	conj
22	With	with	ADP	_	26 edge	case
23	broken	broken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 edge	amod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 broken	punct
25	crumbly	crumbly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 edge	amod
26	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 precipice	nmod
27	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 overhung	nsubj
28	overhung	overhang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 edge	acl:relcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 gulf	det
30	gulf	gulf	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 overhung	obj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 worse	punct
32	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	35 worse	cc
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 worse	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 worse	cop
35	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 ungrateful	conj
36	beyond	beyond	ADV	_	35 worse	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 ungrateful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	gerund			the other side		descent conj; down property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on side=Location
2	is	past	going			still	for twas and all precipice with broken crumbly edge; ungrateful property	tree rules
3	overhang	past	broken crumbly edge	a gulf				vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gulf=Co-Theme
4	is	past	gulf				bad, beyond property	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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 57