Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 11
The name is sometimes applied to that phenomenon of days of mist in the mountains, the “sun-dog,” from which auguries were drawn.
What happens: apply, draw · To what, where: name, auguries
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 applied | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 applied | aux:pass |
| 4 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 applied | advmod |
| 5 | applied | apply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 phenomenon | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 phenomenon | det |
| 8 | phenomenon | phenomenon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 applied | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 days | case |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 phenomenon | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 mist | case |
| 12 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 days | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 mountains | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mountains | det |
| 15 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 mist | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dog | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 dog | det |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 dog | punct |
| 19 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dog | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 sun | punct |
| 21 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 phenomenon | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 applied | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 applied | punct |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 drawn | obl |
| 26 | auguries | augury | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 drawn | aux:pass |
| 28 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 applied | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 applied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | apply | present · passive | the name | to that phenomenon of days of mist in the mountains and the sun dog; sometimes property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | draw | past · passive | auguries | which obl | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from which=Initial_Location |
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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