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title: And at last the sorely pained missionary abandoned in despair the ho… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And at last the sorely pained missionary abandoned in despair the hopeless task of plucking the ancient man from the burning. Who acts: hopeless task. 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 a
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 82

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And at last the sorely pained missionary abandoned in despair the hopeless task of plucking the ancient man from the burning.

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**Who acts:** hopeless task · **What happens:** pain, abandon, pluck · **To what, where:** last pained missionary, despair, ancient man, burning

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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 (hopeless task), 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:pg73766:12:82
# text = And at last the sorely pained missionary abandoned in despair the hopeless task of plucking the ancient man from the burning.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	sorely	sorely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	pained	pain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	missionary	missionary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	abandoned	abandon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	hopeless	hopeless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	plucking	pluck	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pain** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | sorely *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **abandon** | participle |  | the last pained missionary *not said here* |  | despair |  |  | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pluck** | gerund | the hopeless task *not said here* | the ancient man |  | the burning |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent man=Theme from burning=Source |

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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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