Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 59

And yet again ’twas worse When the way passed under a wall, The awful Wall of Death Which hung like a dreadful cloud Over a dismal plain, Rising and falling at times; Yet when, no one could know.

Who acts: way, wall, dismal plain, one · What happens: pass, hang, rise, fall, know · To what, where: wall, dismal plain

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 (way, wall, dismal plain, one), 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	_	6 worse	cc
2	yet	yet	ADV	_	3 again	advmod
3	again	again	ADV	_	6 worse	advmod
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 again	punct
5	twas	twa	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 worse	nsubj
6	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 passed	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 passed	nsubj
10	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 worse	advcl
11	under	under	ADP	_	13 wall	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wall	det
13	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 passed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Wall	punct
15	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Wall	det
16	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Wall	amod
17	Wall	Wall	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 wall	appos
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Death	case
19	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Wall	nmod
20	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 hung	nsubj
21	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wall	acl:relcl
22	like	like	ADP	_	25 cloud	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 cloud	det
24	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 cloud	amod
25	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hung	obl
26	Over	over	ADP	_	29 plain	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 plain	det
28	dismal	dismal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 plain	amod
29	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hung	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Rising	punct
31	Rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 plain	acl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 falling	cc
33	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 Rising	conj
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 times	case
35	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 falling	obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 know	punct
37	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	43 know	cc
38	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	43 know	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 know	punct
40	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	41 one	det
41	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 know	nsubj
42	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 know	aux
43	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 worse	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 worse	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	the way	a wall			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under wall=Location
2	hang	past	a wall	a dismal plain		like a dreadful cloud	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over plain=Location
3	rise	gerund	a dismal plain not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fall	gerund	a dismal plain not said here		time		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	know	could	no one				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 59