Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 19

Then, wearying for the trail and the _pikau_, he set out on a march which was nothing less than heroic, from Southland to the newly-settled homes of his people in the North.

Who acts: Beken, march · What happens: weary, set out, be · To what, where: march, nothing

This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beken, march), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 wearying	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wearying	punct
3	wearying	weary	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 set	advcl
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 trail	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trail	det
6	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wearying	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pikau	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pikau	det
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 pikau	punct
10	pikau	pikau	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trail	conj
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 wearying	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wearying	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 set	nsubj
14	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 set	compound:prt
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 march	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 march	det
18	march	march	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 set	obl
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 nothing	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 nothing	cop
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 march	appos
22	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 nothing	amod
23	than	than	ADP	_	24 heroic	case
24	heroic	heroic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 less	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Southland	punct
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 Southland	case
27	Southland	Southland	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 set	obl
28	to	to	ADP	_	33 homes	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 homes	det
30	newly	newly	ADV	_	32 settled	advmod
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 newly	punct
32	settled	settled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 homes	amod
33	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 set	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 people	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 people	nmod:poss
36	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 homes	nmod
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 North	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 North	det
39	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 people	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weary	gerund	Beken not said here			then	for the trail and the pikau	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	set out	past	Beken		a march		from Southland; to the settled homes of Beken's people in the North	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from southland=Initial_Location to home=Destination
3	is a	past	a march	nothing				tree rules

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, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 19

The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 19