Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 108
About Redcliffs, where the tramline passes round from the broads and under the great cave-riddled lava precipice, there belongs a rather beautiful name, Rae-Kura, which is more modern than most of the other Native designations.
Who acts: tramline, beautiful name · What happens: pass round, belong, be · To what, where: broads, beautiful name
This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Port Hills and Their Names.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tramline, beautiful name), 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 | About | about | ADP | _ | 2 Redcliffs | case |
| 2 | Redcliffs | Redcliffs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 passes | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Redcliffs | punct |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 passes | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tramline | det |
| 6 | tramline | tramline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passes | nsubj |
| 7 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | round | round | ADV | _ | 7 passes | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 broads | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 broads | det |
| 11 | broads | broad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 passes | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 precipice | cc |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 precipice | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 precipice | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 precipice | amod |
| 16 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 precipice | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 cave | punct |
| 18 | riddled | riddled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 precipice | amod |
| 19 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 precipice | compound |
| 20 | precipice | precipice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 broads | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 belongs | punct |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 belongs | expl |
| 23 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 passes | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 name | det |
| 25 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 26 beautiful | advmod |
| 26 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 name | amod |
| 27 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 belongs | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Rae | punct |
| 29 | Rae | Rae | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 name | appos |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 Kura | punct |
| 31 | Kura | Kura | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Rae | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 modern | punct |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 modern | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 modern | cop |
| 35 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 36 modern | advmod |
| 36 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 name | conj |
| 37 | than | than | ADP | _ | 38 most | case |
| 38 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 36 modern | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 designations | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 designations | det |
| 41 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 designations | amod |
| 42 | Native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 designations | amod |
| 43 | designations | designation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 most | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 passes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass round | present | the tramline | the broads and the great cave riddled lava precipice | about Redcliffs; round property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about redcliffs=Location | |||
| 2 | belong | present | the tramline not said here | a beautiful name | there | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | a beautiful name | than most of the other Native designations; modern property | tree rules |
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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