Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 1

The saying that the best place to see the mountains is from below, not from their summits, may properly be qualified in its application to our Port Hills by the opinion that the finest view of the craggy range of old volcanic upjuts is that to be had from a few hundred feet below the range crest, on the Lyttelton Harbour side.

Who acts: best place, place · What happens: see, be, apply, view · To what, where: mountains, application, finest view, few hundred feet, saying, craggy range

This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (best place, place), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 saying	det
2	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 below	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 place	det
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 place	amod
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 below	nsubj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 place	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mountains	det
10	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 see	obj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 below	cop
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 below	case
13	below	below	ADV	_	2 saying	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 summits	punct
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 summits	advmod
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 summits	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 summits	nmod:poss
18	summits	summit	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 below	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 qualified	punct
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 qualified	aux
21	properly	properly	ADV	_	23 qualified	advmod
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 qualified	cop
23	qualified	qualified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 saying	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 application	case
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 application	nmod:poss
26	application	application	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 qualified	obl
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 Hills	case
28	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 Hills	nmod:poss
29	Port	Port	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Hills	compound
30	Hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 application	nmod
31	by	by	ADP	_	33 opinion	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 opinion	det
33	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 qualified	obl
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 had	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 view	det
36	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	37 view	amod
37	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 had	nsubj
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 range	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 range	det
40	craggy	craggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 range	amod
41	range	range	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 view	nmod
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 upjuts	case
43	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 upjuts	amod
44	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 upjuts	amod
45	upjuts	upjut	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 range	nmod
46	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 had	cop
47	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	50 had	nsubj
48	to	to	PART	_	50 had	mark
49	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 had	aux:pass
50	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 opinion	acl:relcl
51	from	from	ADP	_	55 feet	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 feet	det
53	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 feet	amod
54	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	55 feet	nummod
55	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 had	obl
56	below	below	ADP	_	59 crest	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 crest	det
58	range	range	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 crest	compound
59	crest	crest	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 feet	nmod
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 side	punct
61	on	on	ADP	_	65 side	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 side	det
63	Lyttelton	Lyttelton	PROPN	Number=Sing	64 Harbour	compound
64	Harbour	Harbour	PROPN	Number=Sing	65 side	compound
65	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 crest	conj
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive	the best place not said here	the mountains			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mountain=Stimulus
2	is	present	the best place			mountains's summits conj; below property	tree rules
3	is	may			place's application to our Port Hills	by the opinion; properly, qualified property	tree rules
4	is	present · passive		the finest view of the craggy range of old volcanic upjuts	a few hundred feet below the range crest and the Harbour side	the opinion nsubj; have property	tree rules
6	apply		place			to our Port Hills	nom application «act intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl
7	view			the craggy range of old volcanic upjuts			nom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 1

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Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 1