Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 82
And at last the sorely pained missionary abandoned in despair the hopeless task of plucking the ancient man from the burning.
Who acts: hopeless task · What happens: pain, abandon, pluck · To what, where: last pained missionary, despair, ancient man, burning
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 (hopeless task), 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 | _ | 7 missionary | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 missionary | amod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 missionary | det |
| 5 | sorely | sorely | ADV | _ | 6 pained | advmod |
| 6 | pained | pain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 missionary | amod |
| 7 | missionary | missionary | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | abandoned | abandon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 missionary | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 despair | case |
| 10 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 abandoned | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 task | det |
| 12 | hopeless | hopeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 task | amod |
| 13 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 despair | appos |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 plucking | mark |
| 15 | plucking | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 task | acl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 17 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 plucking | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 burning | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 burning | det |
| 21 | burning | burning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 plucking | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 missionary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pain | participle | sorely property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | abandon | participle | the last pained missionary not said here | despair | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pluck | gerund | the hopeless task not said here | the ancient man | the burning | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent man=Theme from burning=Source |
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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