Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 3
Finest of all is the Maori name of Castle Rock, that from one point in the Heathcote Valley looks like a colossal howitzer threatening the Plains.
Who acts: Finest, Castle Rock, colossal howitzer · What happens: be, look, threaten · To what, where: Maori name, Castle Rock, one point, Plains
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 (Finest, Castle Rock, colossal howitzer), 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 | Finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 name | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Finest | nmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 name | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 name | det |
| 6 | Maori | maori | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 name | amod |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Rock | case |
| 9 | Castle | Castle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Rock | compound |
| 10 | Rock | Rock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 name | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 looks | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 looks | nsubj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 point | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 point | nummod |
| 15 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 looks | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Valley | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Valley | det |
| 18 | Heathcote | Heathcote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Valley | compound |
| 19 | Valley | Valley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 point | nmod |
| 20 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Rock | acl:relcl |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 howitzer | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 howitzer | det |
| 23 | colossal | colossal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 howitzer | amod |
| 24 | howitzer | howitzer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 looks | obl |
| 25 | threatening | threaten | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 howitzer | acl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Plains | det |
| 27 | Plains | Plain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 threatening | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Finest of all | the Maori name | of Castle Rock | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look | present | Castle Rock | Castle Rock not said here | one point in the Heathcote Valley | like a colossal howitzer | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rock=Attribute | ||
| 3 | threaten | gerund | a colossal howitzer not said here | the Plains | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus plain=Experiencer |
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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