Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 64
View from Cass Peak, showing Cooper’s Knobs, Dog’s Head, and Pinnacle Hill.
What happens: show · To what, where: Knobs, View
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: 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 | View | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 Cass | case |
| 3 | Cass | Cass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 View | nmod |
| 4 | Peak | Peak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Cass | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 showing | punct |
| 6 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 View | conj |
| 7 | Cooper | Cooper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Knobs | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Cooper | case |
| 9 | Knobs | Knob | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 showing | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Head | punct |
| 11 | Dog | Dog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Dog | case |
| 13 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 View | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Hill | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Hill | cc |
| 16 | Pinnacle | Pinnacle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Hill | compound |
| 17 | Hill | Hill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 View | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 View | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | gerund | Cooper's Knobs | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent knob=Recipient |
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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