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Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 2

There are names of dignity and beauty clustered about those old lava-built crags and ruined towers and tors past which the Summit Road goes a thousand feet above the city.

Who acts: names, Summit Road · What happens: be, cluster, build, ruin, go, name · To what, where: beauty, towers, thousand feet, city, dignity

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 (names, Summit Road), 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

explnsubjcasenmodccconjaclcasedetamodcompoundpunctamodoblccconjobjccconjmarkobjdetcompoundnsubjadvcldetnummodobl:unmarkedcasedetoblpunctrootTherePRONareVERBnamesNOUNofADPdignityNOUNandCCONJbeautyNOUNclusteredVERBaboutADPthoseDEToldADJlavaNOUN-PUNCTbuiltVERBcragsNOUNandCCONJruinedVERBtowersNOUNandCCONJtorsNOUNpastADPwhichPRONtheDETSummitPROPNRoadPROPNgoesVERBaDETthousandNUMfeetNOUNaboveADPtheDETcityNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheretherePRONPronType=Dem2 areexpl
2arebeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3namesnameNOUNNumber=Plur2 arensubj
4ofofADP_5 dignitycase
5dignitydignityNOUNNumber=Sing3 namesnmod
6andandCCONJ_7 beautycc
7beautybeautyNOUNNumber=Sing5 dignityconj
8clusteredclusterVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass7 beautyacl
9aboutaboutADP_15 cragscase
10thosethatDETNumber=Plur PronType=Dem15 cragsdet
11oldoldADJDegree=Pos15 cragsamod
12lavalavaNOUNNumber=Sing14 builtcompound
13--PUNCT_12 lavapunct
14builtbuildVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass15 cragsamod
15cragscragNOUNNumber=Plur8 clusteredobl
16andandCCONJ_17 ruinedcc
17ruinedruinVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 areconj
18towerstowerNOUNNumber=Plur17 ruinedobj
19andandCCONJ_20 torscc
20torstorNOUNNumber=Plur18 towersconj
21pastpastADP_26 goesmark
22whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel26 goesobj
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 Roaddet
24SummitSummitPROPNNumber=Sing25 Roadcompound
25RoadRoadPROPNNumber=Sing26 goesnsubj
26goesgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin17 ruinedadvcl
27aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art28 thousanddet
28thousandthousandNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card29 feetnummod
29feetfootNOUNNumber=Plur26 goesobl:unmarked
30aboveaboveADP_32 citycase
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 citydet
32citycityNOUNNumber=Sing26 goesobl
33..PUNCT_2 arepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1doespresentnames of dignity and beautytherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2clusterparticiplebeauty not said hereabout that old built cragsvn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3buildparticiplelava compoundvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4ruinpastnames of dignity and beauty not said heretowers and torsvn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Patient
5gopresentthe Summit Roadthousand feetthe citywhich objvn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location which=Theme
6namedignity and beautynom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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