Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 10
The Mitchell Track that winds along northward between the tumbled rocks and among the hill flax gives the explorer a start on his traverse from Dyer’s Pass.
Who acts: Mitchell Track · What happens: wind, tumble, give · To what, where: explorer
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 (Mitchell Track), 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 | 3 Track | det |
| 2 | Mitchell | Mitchell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Track | compound |
| 3 | Track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gives | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 winds | nsubj |
| 5 | winds | wind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Track | acl:relcl |
| 6 | along | along | ADV | _ | 5 winds | advmod |
| 7 | northward | northward | ADV | _ | 11 rocks | advmod |
| 8 | between | between | ADP | _ | 11 rocks | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rocks | det |
| 10 | tumbled | tumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 rocks | amod |
| 11 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 winds | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 flax | cc |
| 13 | among | among | ADP | _ | 16 flax | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 flax | det |
| 15 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flax | compound |
| 16 | flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rocks | conj |
| 17 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 explorer | det |
| 19 | explorer | explorer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gives | obj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 start | det |
| 21 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gives | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 traverse | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 traverse | nmod:poss |
| 24 | traverse | traverse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 start | nmod |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 Pass | case |
| 26 | Dyer | Dyer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Pass | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 Dyer | case |
| 28 | Pass | Pass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 traverse | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wind | present | the Mitchell Track | the tumbled rocks and the hill flax parataxis; along property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tumble | participle | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 3 | give | present | the Mitchell Track | the explorer | a start obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent explorer=Recipient start=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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