Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 59
Go and look behind the Ranges-- Something lost behind the Ranges.
Who acts: you · What happens: go, look, lose · To what, where: Ranges
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 (you), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 look | cc |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 4 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 6 Ranges | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Ranges | det |
| 6 | Ranges | range | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | obl |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 Something | punct |
| 8 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 Ranges | conj |
| 9 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Something | acl |
| 10 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 12 Ranges | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Ranges | det |
| 12 | Ranges | range | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lost | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | infinitive | you not said here | behind the Ranges Something | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind range=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lose | participle | the Ranges | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: 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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