Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 27

Such were the foods of this Wai-pounamu; and so good seemed the land to those conquistadors as they stood there on the windy height surveying the great new country fallen into their hands, that they decided to remain in so promising a place; and it is their descendants who people Rapaki and other _kaingas_ to-day.

Who acts: Such foods, conquistadors, windy height, Food, descendants · What happens: be, seem, stand, survey, fall, decide · To what, where: Such foods, land, windy height, great new country, hands, place

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 (Such foods, conquistadors, windy height, Food), 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	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 foods	amod
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 foods	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 foods	det
4	foods	food	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 seemed	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 pounamu	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 pounamu	nsubj
7	Wai	Wai	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 pounamu	nsubj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 pounamu	punct
9	pounamu	pounamu	X	Foreign=Yes	4 foods	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 good	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 good	cc
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 good	advmod
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 seemed	nsubj
14	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 land	det
16	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seemed	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 conquistadors	case
18	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 conquistadors	det
19	conquistadors	conquistador	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 seemed	obl
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 stood	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 stood	nsubj
22	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seemed	advcl
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 stood	advmod
24	on	on	ADP	_	27 height	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 height	det
26	windy	windy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 height	amod
27	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stood	obl
28	surveying	survey	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 height	acl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 country	det
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 country	amod
31	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 country	amod
32	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 surveying	obj
33	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 country	acl
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 hands	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 hands	nmod:poss
36	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 fallen	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 decided	punct
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 decided	mark
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 decided	nsubj
40	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 stood	conj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 remain	mark
42	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 decided	xcomp
43	in	in	SCONJ	_	45 promising	mark
44	so	so	ADV	_	45 promising	advmod
45	promising	promise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 remain	advcl
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 place	det
47	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 promising	obj
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 descendants	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 descendants	cc
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 descendants	nsubj
51	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 descendants	cop
52	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 descendants	nmod:poss
53	descendants	descendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 seemed	obl
54	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 people	nsubj
55	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 descendants	conj
56	Rapaki	Rapaki	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 people	appos
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 other	cc
58	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 Rapaki	conj
59	_	_	PUNCT	_	60 kaingas	punct
60	kaingas	kainga	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 Rapaki	conj
61	_	_	PUNCT	_	55 people	punct
62	to	to	ADP	_	64 day	case
63	-	-	PUNCT	_	62 to	punct
64	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 _	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Such foods		of pounamu this Wai	tree rules
2	seem	past	the Such foods	the land		to that conquistadors	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme land=Attribute
3	stand	past	conquistadors = conquistador		the windy height; there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on height=Location
4	survey	gerund	the windy height not said here	the great new country			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme
5	fall	participle		the great new country not said here		into conquistadors's hands result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result
6	decide	past	conquistadors = conquistador				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	remain not said to happen	to-infinitive	conquistadors = conquistador not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	promise speech: promise	gerund	conquistadors = conquistador not said here	a place			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent place=Theme
9	is a	present	Food	conquistadors's descendants and people		conquistadors = conquistador nmod:poss	tree rules
10	people		conquistadors's descendants and people			Rapaki and kaingas appos	tree rules

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 27

The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 27