Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 21
Working south from the lighthouse we presently come to the deep bay of Te Awa-parahi, where a little farmstead stands in its well-hidden nest, between the lowering peaks.
Who acts: we, little farmstead · What happens: work, come, stand, hide · To what, where: lighthouse, deep bay, well hidden nest
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 (we, little farmstead), 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 | Working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 come | csubj |
| 2 | south | south | ADV | _ | 1 Working | advmod |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 lighthouse | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lighthouse | det |
| 5 | lighthouse | lighthouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Working | obl |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 come | nsubj |
| 7 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 8 come | advmod |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 bay | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bay | det |
| 11 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bay | amod |
| 12 | bay | bay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Te | case |
| 14 | Te | Te | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 bay | nmod |
| 15 | Awa | Awa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Te | flat |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 parahi | punct |
| 17 | parahi | parahi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Te | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stands | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 stands | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 farmstead | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 farmstead | amod |
| 22 | farmstead | farmstead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stands | nsubj |
| 23 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 parahi | acl:relcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 nest | case |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 nest | nmod:poss |
| 26 | well | well | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 nest | amod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 well | punct |
| 28 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 nest | amod |
| 29 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stands | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 peaks | punct |
| 31 | between | between | ADP | _ | 34 peaks | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 peaks | det |
| 33 | lowering | lowering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 peaks | compound |
| 34 | peaks | peak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 nest | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | gerund | the lighthouse | south property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | present | we | the deep bay of Te | presently property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bay=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | stand | present | a little farmstead | lighthouse's well hidden nest and the lowering peaks | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in nest=Location | ||||
| 4 | hide | participle | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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