Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 85
Jog on, jog on, the footpath way,[2] And merrily hent the stile-a; A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad heart tires in a mile-a.
Who acts: Jog, merry heart, sad heart · What happens: hent, go, tire · To what, where: stile
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 (Jog, merry heart, sad heart), 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 | Jog | jog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hent | nsubj |
| 2 | on | on | ADV | _ | 1 Jog | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 jog | punct |
| 4 | jog | jog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Jog | conj |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 jog | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 way | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 8 | footpath | footpath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 way | compound |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Jog | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hent | punct |
| 11 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 12 2 | punct |
| 12 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 hent | discourse |
| 13 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 12 2 | punct |
| 14 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hent | cc |
| 15 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 16 hent | advmod |
| 16 | hent | hent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stile | det |
| 18 | stile | stile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hent | obj |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 a | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 stile | appos |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 goes | punct |
| 22 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 heart | det |
| 23 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 heart | amod |
| 24 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 goes | nsubj |
| 25 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 hent | conj |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 day | det:predet |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 day | det |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 goes | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 tires | punct |
| 30 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 heart | nmod:poss |
| 31 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 heart | amod |
| 32 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 tires | nsubj |
| 33 | tires | tire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 hent | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 mile | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 mile | det |
| 36 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 tires | obl |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 a | punct |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 mile | appos |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 hent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hent | infinitive | Jog and jog and the footpath way | the stile | 2 discourse; merrily property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | present | a merry heart | day | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tire | present | Your sad heart | in a mile | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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: «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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