Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 34
With his war parties he scoured all these ranges and tracked the frightened fugitives into their most secret valleys and caves.
Who acts: figure · What happens: scour, track · To what, where: ranges, frightened fugitives, most secret valleys
This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (figure), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 parties | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 parties | nmod:poss |
| 3 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 parties | compound |
| 4 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 scoured | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 scoured | nsubj |
| 6 | scoured | scour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 ranges | det:predet |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 ranges | det |
| 9 | ranges | range | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 scoured | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tracked | cc |
| 11 | tracked | track | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 scoured | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fugitives | det |
| 13 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fugitives | amod |
| 14 | fugitives | fugitive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tracked | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 valleys | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 valleys | nmod:poss |
| 17 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 valleys | amod |
| 18 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 valleys | amod |
| 19 | valleys | valley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tracked | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 caves | cc |
| 21 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 valleys | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 scoured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scour | past | figure | all ranges | with figure's war parties | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent range=Source | |||
| 2 | track | past | figure not said here | the frightened fugitives | fugitives's most secret valleys and caves | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fugitive=Theme into valley=Trajectory |
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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