Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 18

Looking back at the Pass, just before we round the first bend in the rocky traverse, the cliff makes a terraced halt in its descent, and here on this tussock-grown tiny level, broidered with flax bushes and their honey-sweet _korari_ blossoms, there is an eye-taking prospect of the Dyer’s Pass dip to the soft-blue sunlit harbour and of the black rock-faces and strong folds of the Port Hills southward.

Who acts: taking prospect, we, cliff, Port, halt · What happens: look back, round, make, terrace, grow, broider · To what, where: first bend, rocky traverse, terraced halt, descent, grown tiny level, Pass dip

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 (taking prospect, we, cliff, Port), 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	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	54 is	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 Pass	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Pass	det
5	Pass	Pass	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 round	punct
7	just	just	ADV	_	10 round	advmod
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 round	mark
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 round	nsubj
10	round	round	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Looking	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bend	det
12	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 bend	amod
13	bend	bend	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 round	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 traverse	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 traverse	det
16	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 traverse	amod
17	traverse	traverse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bend	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 makes	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cliff	det
20	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 makes	nsubj
21	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 bend	acl:relcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 halt	det
23	terraced	terrace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 halt	amod
24	halt	halt	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 makes	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 descent	case
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 descent	nmod:poss
27	descent	descent	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 makes	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 level	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 level	cc
30	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 level	advmod
31	on	on	ADP	_	37 level	case
32	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 level	nsubj
33	tussock	tussock	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 grown	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 tussock	punct
35	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 level	amod
36	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 level	amod
37	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 round	parataxis
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 broidered	punct
39	broidered	broider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 level	acl
40	with	with	ADP	_	42 bushes	case
41	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 bushes	compound
42	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 broidered	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 korari	cc
44	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 korari	nmod:poss
45	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 sweet	compound
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 honey	punct
47	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 korari	amod
48	_	_	PUNCT	_	47 sweet	punct
49	korari	korari	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 broidered	conj
50	_	_	PUNCT	_	51 blossoms	punct
51	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 korari	conj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
53	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	54 is	expl
54	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
55	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 prospect	det
56	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 taking	compound
57	-	-	PUNCT	_	56 eye	punct
58	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	59 prospect	amod
59	prospect	prospect	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 is	nsubj
60	of	of	ADP	_	65 dip	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 Dyer	det
62	Dyer	Dyer	PROPN	Number=Sing	65 dip	nmod:poss
63	’s	's	PART	_	62 Dyer	case
64	Pass	Pass	PROPN	Number=Sing	65 dip	compound
65	dip	dip	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 prospect	nmod
66	to	to	ADP	_	72 harbour	case
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	72 harbour	det
68	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 blue	amod
69	-	-	PUNCT	_	68 soft	punct
70	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	72 harbour	amod
71	sunlit	sunlit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	72 harbour	amod
72	harbour	harbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 dip	nmod
73	and	and	CCONJ	_	79 faces	cc
74	of	of	ADP	_	79 faces	case
75	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	79 faces	det
76	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	79 faces	amod
77	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	79 faces	compound
78	-	-	PUNCT	_	77 rock	punct
79	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	72 harbour	conj
80	and	and	CCONJ	_	82 folds	cc
81	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	82 folds	amod
82	folds	fold	NOUN	Number=Plur	79 faces	conj
83	of	of	SCONJ	_	86 Hills	mark
84	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	85 Port	det
85	Port	Port	PROPN	Number=Sing	86 Hills	nsubj
86	Hills	hill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	82 folds	advcl
87	southward	southward	ADV	_	86 Hills	advmod
88	.	.	PUNCT	_	54 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund	a taking prospect of the Dyer's Pass dip to the blue sunlit harbour and the black rock faces and strong folds not said here			at the Pass	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at pass=Theme
2	round	present	we	the first bend	the rocky traverse	grown tiny level this parataxis	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bend=Patient
3	make	present	the cliff	a terraced halt	halt's descent		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset halt=Product
4	terrace	participle					tree rules
5	grow	participle				tussock compound	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	broider	participle		grown tiny level this not said here		with flax bushes; cliffs's sweet korari and blossoms conj	tree rules
7	be	present	a taking prospect of the Dyer's Pass dip to the blue sunlit harbour and the black rock faces and strong folds		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	take	gerund				eye compound	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	hill	present	the Port			southward property	tree rules
10	descend		halt				nom descent «event intransitive»: poss=agent
11	prospect			the Dyer's Pass dip to the blue sunlit harbour and the black rock faces and strong folds			nom prospect «state 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 18