Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 31
Flax-flower honey-water makes a pleasant enough drink, and the Boy Scout tastes and pronounces it good.
Who acts: Flax flower, Boy Scout · What happens: make, taste, pronounce · To what, where: pleasant enough drink, Scout
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 (Flax flower, Boy Scout), 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 | Flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flower | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Flax | punct |
| 3 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 makes | nsubj |
| 4 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 water | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 honey | punct |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flower | obj |
| 7 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 drink | det |
| 9 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 drink | amod |
| 10 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 drink | amod |
| 11 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 makes | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tastes | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 tastes | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Scout | det |
| 15 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Scout | compound |
| 16 | Scout | Scout | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 tastes | nsubj |
| 17 | tastes | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 makes | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pronounces | cc |
| 19 | pronounces | pronounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 tastes | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 pronounces | obj |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 pronounces | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Flax flower honey water | a pleasant enough drink | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset drink=Product | ||||
| 2 | taste | present | the Boy Scout | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | pronounce | present | the Boy Scout not said here | Scout | good property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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