Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 30
Some of the tall _korari_ stalks are well in flower and bees are busy; on others the long dark-sheathed buds are just unfolding.
Who acts: stalks, flower, long sheathed buds · What happens: be, sheath, unfold · To what, where: flower, others
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 (stalks, flower, long sheathed buds), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 stalks | det |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 korari | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 korari | det |
| 4 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 korari | amod |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 tall | punct |
| 6 | korari | korari | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stalks | obl |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 korari | punct |
| 8 | stalks | stalk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 flower | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 flower | cop |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 flower | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 flower | case |
| 12 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 busy | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bees | cc |
| 14 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 flower | conj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 busy | cop |
| 16 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 busy | punct |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 others | case |
| 19 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 busy | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 buds | det |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 buds | amod |
| 22 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sheathed | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 dark | punct |
| 24 | sheathed | sheath | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 buds | amod |
| 25 | buds | bud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 unfolding | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 unfolding | aux |
| 27 | just | just | ADV | _ | 28 unfolding | advmod |
| 28 | unfolding | unfold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 others | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | some stalks of the tall korari | flower and bees | bees conj; well property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | flower and bees | others | busy property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | sheath | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | unfold | present · progressive | the long sheathed buds | others not said here | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent other=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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