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title: And the going down Or descent on the other side Was more ungrateful… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 6, w
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 57

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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.

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

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78673:6:57
# text = 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.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	descent	descent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
16	For	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	’	'	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	precipice	precipice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	With	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	broken	broken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	crumbly	crumbly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
27	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	overhung	overhang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	gulf	gulf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	conj	_	_
36	beyond	beyond	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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