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Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 33

“My eyes are like the wind-waved _korari_ blossoms; when the breeze shakes the flowers down fall the honey showers; so flow my tears.”

Who acts: eyes, breeze, flowers · What happens: wave, be, shake, fall, flow · To what, where: honey showers, tears · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (eyes, breeze, flowers), 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

punctnmod:possnsubjcopcasedetcompoundpunctamodpunctpunctconjpunctmarkdetnsubjconjdetnsubjadvmodccompdetcompoundobjpunctadvmodconjnmod:possobjpunctpunctroot“PUNCTMyPRONeyesNOUNareAUXlikeADPtheDETwindNOUN-PUNCTwavedVERB_PUNCTkorariNOUN_PUNCTblossomsNOUN;PUNCTwhenSCONJtheDETbreezeNOUNshakesVERBtheDETflowersNOUNdownADVfallVERBtheDEThoneyNOUNshowersNOUN;PUNCTsoADVflowVERBmyPRONtearsNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_11 koraripunct
2MymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs3 eyesnmod:poss
3eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur11 korarinsubj
4arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin11 koraricop
5likelikeADP_11 koraricase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 koraridet
7windwindNOUNNumber=Sing9 wavedcompound
8--PUNCT_7 windpunct
9wavedwaveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass11 korariamod
10__PUNCT_9 wavedpunct
11korarikorariNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
12__PUNCT_13 blossomspunct
13blossomsblossomNOUNNumber=Plur11 korariconj
14;;PUNCT_18 shakespunct
15whenwhenSCONJ_18 shakesmark
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 breezedet
17breezebreezeNOUNNumber=Sing18 shakesnsubj
18shakesshakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin11 korariconj
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 flowersdet
20flowersflowerNOUNNumber=Plur22 fallnsubj
21downdownADV_22 falladvmod
22fallfallVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin18 shakesccomp
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 showersdet
24honeyhoneyNOUNNumber=Sing25 showerscompound
25showersshowerNOUNNumber=Plur22 fallobj
26;;PUNCT_28 flowpunct
27sosoADV_28 flowadvmod
28flowflowVERBVerbForm=Inf11 korariconj
29mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 tearsnmod:poss
30tearstearNOUNNumber=Plur28 flowobj
31..PUNCT_11 koraripunct
32”"PUNCT_11 koraripunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1wave in a quoteparticiplewind compoundvn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2is in a quotepresentMy eyeslike the waved korari and blossoms; blossoms conjtree rules
3shake in a quotepresentthe breezetree rules
4fall in a quotepresentthe flowersthe honey showersdown propertyvn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient shower=Result
5flow in a quoteinfinitiveMy eyes not said heremy tearsvn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=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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