Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 61
Next as we go up to meet the hills of Banks Peninsula is the bold precipice of Te Pari-mataa, or “Obsidian Cliff,” with the great volcanic dyke of Otarahaka, and then our present pilgrimage ends, for we are right under the hugely parapeted castle hill of Te Ahu-patiki--Mt.
Who acts: we, Banks Peninsula, present pilgrimage · What happens: go up, meet, be, end, parapet · To what, where: hills, hugely parapeted castle hill
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, Banks Peninsula, present pilgrimage), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 go | mark |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Next | advcl |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 meet | mark |
| 7 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hills | det |
| 9 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 meet | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 precipice | case |
| 11 | Banks | Banks | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Peninsula | compound |
| 12 | Peninsula | Peninsula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 precipice | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 precipice | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 precipice | det |
| 15 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 precipice | amod |
| 16 | precipice | precipice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hills | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Te | case |
| 18 | Te | Te | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 precipice | nmod |
| 19 | Pari | Pari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Te | flat |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 mataa | punct |
| 21 | mataa | mataa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Te | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Cliff | punct |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 Cliff | cc |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Cliff | punct |
| 25 | Obsidian | obsidian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Cliff | amod |
| 26 | Cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Te | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Cliff | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Cliff | punct |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 dyke | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 dyke | det |
| 31 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 dyke | amod |
| 32 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 dyke | amod |
| 33 | dyke | dyke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Cliff | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Otarahaka | case |
| 35 | Otarahaka | Otarahaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 dyke | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 ends | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 ends | cc |
| 38 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 42 ends | advmod |
| 39 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 pilgrimage | nmod:poss |
| 40 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 pilgrimage | amod |
| 41 | pilgrimage | pilgrimage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 ends | nsubj |
| 42 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 right | punct |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 47 right | case |
| 45 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 right | nsubj |
| 46 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 right | cop |
| 47 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 ends | advcl |
| 48 | under | under | ADP | _ | 53 hill | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 hill | det |
| 50 | hugely | hugely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 hill | amod |
| 51 | parapeted | parapet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 53 hill | amod |
| 52 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 hill | compound |
| 53 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 right | obl |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 Te | case |
| 55 | Te | Te | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 hill | nmod |
| 56 | Ahu | Ahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 55 Te | flat |
| 57 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 58 patiki | punct |
| 58 | patiki | patiki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 Te | appos |
| 59 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 60 Mt | punct |
| 60 | Mt | Mt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 58 patiki | appos |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Next | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | present | we | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | we not said here | the hills | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Banks Peninsula | of the bold precipice; of Te | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | end | present | our present pilgrimage | then | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | is | present | we | the hugely parapeted castle hill of Te | right property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | parapet | participle | tree rules |
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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