Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 25
The Plains, as he showed them, were plentifully studded with the ti-palm, from which the sugary _kauru_ could be obtained.
Who acts: Plains · What happens: show, stud, obtain · To what, where: waters
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 (Plains), 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 Plains | det |
| 2 | Plains | Plain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 showed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 showed | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 showed | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 showed | nsubj |
| 6 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 showed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 studded | punct |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 studded | aux:pass |
| 10 | plentifully | plentifully | ADV | _ | 11 studded | advmod |
| 11 | studded | stud | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 showed | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 palm | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 palm | det |
| 14 | ti | ti | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 palm | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 ti | punct |
| 16 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 studded | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sugary | punct |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 sugary | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sugary | det |
| 21 | sugary | sugary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 studded | parataxis |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 kauru | punct |
| 23 | kauru | kauru | X | Foreign=Yes | 21 sugary | dep |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 obtained | punct |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 obtained | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 obtained | aux:pass |
| 27 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 kauru | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | the Plains | waters = water | Waitai nsubj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | |||
| 2 | stud | past · passive | the Plains not said here | with the ti palm; plentifully property | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with palm=Theme | ||||
| 3 | obtain | could · passive | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
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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