Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 11

Yet--these hills were different in my young days, when the mists came down and the fog enveloped the little streams tumbling down all the valleys from the gloomy places.

Who acts: hills, mists, fog, little streams · What happens: be, come down, envelop, tumble down · To what, where: little streams, valleys, gloomy places

This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Little People of the Mist.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hills, mists, fog, little streams), 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	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	6 different	cc
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	1 Yet	punct
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 hills	det
4	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 different	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 different	cop
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 days	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 days	nmod:poss
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 days	amod
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 different	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 came	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mists	det
14	mists	mist	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 different	parataxis
16	down	down	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 enveloped	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fog	det
19	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 enveloped	nsubj
20	enveloped	envelop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 came	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 streams	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 streams	amod
23	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 enveloped	obj
24	tumbling	tumble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 streams	acl
25	down	down	ADV	_	24 tumbling	advmod
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 valleys	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 valleys	det
28	valleys	valley	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 tumbling	obj
29	from	from	ADP	_	32 places	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 places	det
31	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 places	amod
32	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 valleys	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 different	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	this hills			day	different property	tree rules
2	come down	past	the mists				down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	envelop	past	the fog	the little streams				vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stream=Co-Theme
4	tumble down	gerund	the little streams not said here	all valleys	the gloomy places		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient valley=Extent from place=Initial_State

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, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 11

The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 11