Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 109
It means “Red-glowing Headland,” or, let us say, “Rosy Point.”
Who acts: tramline, us · What happens: mean, glow, let, say · To what, where: Red glowing Headland, us, Rosy Point · Speech: someone speaks here
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, us), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Headland | punct |
| 4 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Headland | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Red | punct |
| 6 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 Headland | amod |
| 7 | Headland | headland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Headland | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Headland | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 let | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 or | punct |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Headland | conj |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Point | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Point | punct |
| 17 | Rosy | rosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Point | amod |
| 18 | Point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 say | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | tramline | Red glowing Headland | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headland=Topic | ||||
| 2 | glow in a quote | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | tramline not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | infinitive | us not said here | Rosy Point | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent point=Topic |
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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