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description: With his war parties he scoured all these ranges and tracked the frightened fugitives into their most secret valleys and caves. Who acts: figure. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., with its dependency tree and th
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 34

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With his war parties he scoured all these ranges and tracked the frightened fugitives into their most secret valleys and caves.

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**Who acts:** figure · **What happens:** scour, track · **To what, where:** ranges, frightened fugitives, most secret valleys

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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 (figure), 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:pg73766:12:34
# text = With his war parties he scoured all these ranges and tracked the frightened fugitives into their most secret valleys and caves.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	scoured	scour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	ranges	range	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	tracked	track	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	frightened	frightened	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	fugitives	fugitive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
17	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
18	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	caves	cave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scour** | past | figure | all ranges |  |  |  | with figure's war parties | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent range=Source |
| 2 | **track** | past | figure *not said here* | the frightened fugitives |  | fugitives's most secret valleys and caves |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fugitive=Theme into valley=Trajectory |

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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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