Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 13
The valley is more attractive outside, for almost every vestige of the moss and ferns and underbrush has disappeared before grazing stock and the
Who acts: valley, vestige · What happens: be, disappear, graze · To what, where: stock
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 (valley, vestige), 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 valley | det |
| 2 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 attractive | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 attractive | cop |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 attractive | advmod |
| 5 | attractive | attractive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 5 attractive | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 vestige | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 vestige | case |
| 9 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 11 vestige | advmod |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 vestige | det |
| 11 | vestige | vestige | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 disappeared | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 moss | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 moss | det |
| 14 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 vestige | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ferns | cc |
| 16 | ferns | fern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 moss | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 underbrush | cc |
| 18 | underbrush | underbrush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 moss | conj |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 disappeared | aux |
| 20 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 attractive | parataxis |
| 21 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 22 grazing | mark |
| 22 | grazing | graze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 disappeared | advcl |
| 23 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 grazing | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 the | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 attractive | conj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the valley | attractive, outside property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | disappear | present · perfect | every vestige of the moss and ferns and underbrush | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | graze | gerund | every vestige of the moss and ferns and underbrush not said here | stock | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stock=Experiencer |
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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