--- title: Yon savage Poho of rhyolite, and the peaked and pinnacled cores of o… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics description: Yon savage Poho of rhyolite, and the peaked and pinnacled cores of old volcanoes that break through the grassy hills for mile after mile, all have their tales of pre-_pakeha_ years, of which we shall chronicle something again. Who acts: old volcanoes, Poho, we, Hills. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old volcanoes, Poho, we, Hills), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg73766:12:98 # text = Yon savage Poho of rhyolite, and the peaked and pinnacled cores of old volcanoes that break through the grassy hills for mile after mile, all have their tales of pre-_pakeha_ years, of which we shall chronicle something again. 1 Yon yon NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 savage savage NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod:desc _ _ 3 Poho Poho PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 rhyolite rhyolite NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 9 peaked peak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 pinnacled pinnacle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 12 cores core NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 volcanoes volcano NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 through through ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 grassy grassy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 mile mile NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 24 after after ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 mile mile NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 28 advmod _ _ 28 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 pre pre X AFX _ 30 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 pakeha pakeha NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 37 punct _ _ 37 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 obl _ _ 41 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 42 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 chronicle chronicle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 44 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 43 obj _ _ 45 again again ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **peak** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pinnacle** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **break** | present | old volcanoes | | | the grassy hills | after mile | for mile | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hill=Location | | 4 | **have** | present | Poho Yon savage of rhyolite and the peaked cores of old volcanoes | Hills's tales and pakeha | | | year | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Patient | | 5 | **chronicle** | shall | we | something | | | again | which *obl* | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | | 6 | **tell** | | Hills *= hill* | | | | | | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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. - ← previous: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/12/97/) - next →: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/12/99/) - ↑ back to [Rapaki: a Village By the Sea.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/12/)