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title: Jog on, jog on, the footpath way,[2] And merrily hent the stile-a; A… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Jog on, jog on, the footpath way,[2] And merrily hent the stile-a; A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad heart tires in a mile-a. Who acts: Jog, merry heart, sad heart. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, with it
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 85

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Jog on, jog on, the footpath way,\[2\] And merrily hent the stile-a; A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad heart tires in a mile-a.

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**Who acts:** Jog, merry heart, sad heart · **What happens:** hent, go, tire · **To what, where:** stile

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This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jog, merry heart, sad heart), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg73766:11:86
# text = Jog on, jog on, the footpath way,[2] And merrily hent the stile-a; A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad heart tires in a mile-a.
1	Jog	jog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	jog	jog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	on	on	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	footpath	footpath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	merrily	merrily	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	hent	hent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	stile	stile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	tires	tire	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hent** | infinitive | Jog and jog and the footpath way | the stile |  |  |  | 2 *discourse*; merrily *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | present | a merry heart |  |  |  | day |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tire** | present | Your sad heart |  |  |  |  | in a mile | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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**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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