Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 13
And this is not the only Hills name that holds a memory of the cult of the Rainbow-God.
Who acts: this, only Hills name · What happens: not be, hold · To what, where: only Hills name, memory
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 (this, only Hills 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 name | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 name | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 name | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 name | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 name | det |
| 6 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 name | amod |
| 7 | Hills | Hill | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 name | compound |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 holds | nsubj |
| 10 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 name | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 memory | det |
| 12 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 holds | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 cult | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cult | det |
| 15 | cult | cult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 memory | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 God | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 God | det |
| 18 | Rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 God | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Rainbow | punct |
| 20 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 cult | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | this | the only Hills name | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | present | the only Hills name | a memory of the cult of the Rainbow God | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Theme |
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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