Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 35
The Boy Scout sidles warily past those bushes of _ongaonga_ when he is told of its poisonous qualities, and of an experience the narrator had with it years ago in the King Country bush.
Who acts: Boy Scout, narrator · What happens: sidle, tell, have · To what, where: bushes, breeze, bush · 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 (Boy Scout, narrator), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Scout | det |
| 2 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Scout | compound |
| 3 | Scout | Scout | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sidles | nsubj |
| 4 | sidles | sidle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | warily | warily | ADV | _ | 4 sidles | advmod |
| 6 | past | past | ADP | _ | 8 bushes | case |
| 7 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 bushes | det |
| 8 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sidles | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 ongaonga | case |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 of | punct |
| 11 | ongaonga | ongaonga | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 bushes | conj |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 ongaonga | punct |
| 13 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 told | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 told | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 told | aux:pass |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sidles | advcl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 qualities | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 qualities | nmod:poss |
| 19 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 qualities | amod |
| 20 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 told | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 had | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 had | cc |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 experience | case |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 experience | det |
| 25 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 had | obl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 narrator | det |
| 27 | narrator | narrator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 had | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sidles | parataxis |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 had | obl |
| 31 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 28 had | advmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 bush | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 bush | det |
| 35 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 bush | nmod:desc |
| 36 | Country | Country | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 bush | nmod:desc |
| 37 | bush | Bush | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 had | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sidles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sidle | present | the Boy Scout | that bushes | warily property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past bush=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | breeze | of bush's poisonous qualities | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the narrator | the bush King Country | of a experience; with bush; ago property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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