Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 38
Orongomai, a melodious name when properly pronounced, is the old Ngai-Tahu name of Cass Peak, the rhyolite height which lifts 1780 ft. above the waters of Governor’s Bay, overlooking the remnant of the ancient forest at Kennedy’s Bush.
Who acts: Orongomai, rhyolite height · What happens: pronounce, be, lift, overlook · To what, where: old Tahu name, 1780 ft., waters, remnant, Bush
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 (Orongomai, rhyolite height), 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 | Orongomai | Orongomai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 name | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 name | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 name | det |
| 4 | melodious | melodious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 name | amod |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Orongomai | appos |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 pronounced | advmod |
| 7 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 8 pronounced | advmod |
| 8 | pronounced | pronounce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 name | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Orongomai | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 name | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 name | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 name | amod |
| 13 | Ngai | Ngai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Tahu | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ngai | punct |
| 15 | Tahu | Tahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 name | compound |
| 16 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Peak | case |
| 18 | Cass | Cass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Peak | compound |
| 19 | Peak | Peak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 name | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 height | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 height | det |
| 22 | rhyolite | rhyolite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 height | compound |
| 23 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Peak | appos |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 lifts | nsubj |
| 25 | lifts | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 height | acl:relcl |
| 26 | 1780 | 1780 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 ft. | nummod |
| 27 | ft. | Ft. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 lifts | obj |
| 28 | above | above | ADP | _ | 30 waters | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 waters | det |
| 30 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 lifts | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Bay | case |
| 32 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Bay | nmod:poss |
| 33 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 32 Governor | case |
| 34 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 waters | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 overlooking | punct |
| 36 | overlooking | overlook | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 lifts | advcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 remnant | det |
| 38 | remnant | remnant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 overlooking | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 forest | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 forest | det |
| 41 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 forest | amod |
| 42 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 remnant | nmod |
| 43 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 Bush | case |
| 44 | Kennedy | Kennedy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Bush | nmod:poss |
| 45 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 44 Kennedy | case |
| 46 | Bush | Bush | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 overlooking | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pronounce | participle | properly property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Orongomai | the old Tahu name | of Cass Peak | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lift | present | the rhyolite height | 1780 ft. | the waters of Governor's Bay | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ft.=Theme above water=Destination | |||
| 4 | overlook | gerund | the rhyolite height not said here | the remnant of the ancient forest | Kennedy's Bush | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remnant=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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