Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 16
sudden torrents that have poured down from the ridge to make the little storm-creek flowing into the harbour beside the grassy mound of Pa-rakiraki.
Who acts: little storm creek · What happens: pour down, make, flow · To what, where: sudden torrents, ridge, little storm creek, harbour
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 (little storm creek), 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 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 torrents | amod |
| 2 | torrents | torrent | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 poured | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 poured | aux |
| 5 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 torrents | acl:relcl |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 poured | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 ridge | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ridge | det |
| 9 | ridge | ridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 poured | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 make | mark |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 poured | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 creek | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 creek | amod |
| 14 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 creek | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 storm | punct |
| 16 | creek | creek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 17 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 creek | acl |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 harbour | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 harbour | det |
| 20 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flowing | obl |
| 21 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 24 mound | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 mound | det |
| 23 | grassy | grassy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 mound | amod |
| 24 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flowing | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 rakiraki | case |
| 26 | Pa | Pa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 rakiraki | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 rakiraki | punct |
| 28 | rakiraki | rakiraki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mound | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 torrents | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour down | present · perfect · passive | sudden torrents | the ridge | down property | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme from ridge=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | the little storm creek | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset creek=Product | |||||
| 3 | flow | gerund | the little storm creek not said here | the harbour | beside the grassy mound of Pa rakiraki | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside mound=Location |
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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