Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 32
There is a pretty Maori love-lament in which a girl compares her sorrowing self to this blossom of the flax:
Who acts: pretty Maori love lament, girl · What happens: be, compare, sorrow · To what, where: lament, pretty Maori love lament, self
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 (pretty Maori love lament, girl), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lament | det |
| 4 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lament | amod |
| 5 | Maori | Maori | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lament | compound |
| 6 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lament | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 love | punct |
| 8 | lament | lament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 compares | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 compares | nsubj |
| 13 | compares | compare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lament | parataxis |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 compares | obj |
| 15 | sorrowing | sorrow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 compares | advcl |
| 16 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sorrowing | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 blossom | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 blossom | det |
| 19 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sorrowing | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 flax | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 flax | det |
| 22 | flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 blossom | nmod |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a pretty Maori love lament | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | compare | present | a girl | lament | a pretty Maori love lament | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 3 | sorrow | gerund | a girl not said here | self | to this blossom of the flax | 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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