Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 23

When Waitai and his companions emerged from the bush and topped the lofty round of the range, he halted, and bade them look out over the wide, silent country.

Who acts: Waitai · What happens: emerge, top, halt, look out · To what, where: bush, lofty round, bade, wide silent country

This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Waitai), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 emerged	advmod
2	Waitai	Waitai	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 emerged	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 companions	cc
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 companions	nmod:poss
5	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Waitai	conj
6	emerged	emerge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 halted	advcl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 bush	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bush	det
9	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 emerged	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 topped	cc
11	topped	top	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 emerged	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 round	det
13	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 round	amod
14	round	round	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 topped	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 range	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 range	det
17	range	range	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 round	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 emerged	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 halted	nsubj
20	halted	halt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 look	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 look	cc
23	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 look	obl
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bade	obj
25	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	20 halted	conj
26	out	out	ADV	_	25 look	advmod
27	over	over	ADP	_	32 country	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 country	det
29	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 country	amod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wide	punct
31	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 country	amod
32	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 look	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 halted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	emerge	past	Waitai and Waitai's companions		the bush		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bush=Initial_Location
2	top	past	Waitai and Waitai's companions not said here	the lofty round of the range			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme round=Co-Theme
3	halt	past	Waitai				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	look out	present	Waitai not said here	bade companions	the wide silent country	out property	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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: «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Project Gutenberg book 73766 (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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🌲 Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 23

The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 23