Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 36
Away up yonder, in the Ohura Valley, between the open lands of the King Country and Taranaki, the _ongaonga_ grew into tall shrubs, ten or twelve feet high, and its virulence apparently was in proportion to its growth.
Who acts: Ohura Valley, valley · What happens: grow, be · To what, where: virulence, tall shrubs, proportion
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 (Ohura Valley, valley), 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 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 3 yonder | advmod |
| 2 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 yonder | advmod |
| 3 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 25 grew | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Valley | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Valley | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Valley | det |
| 7 | Ohura | Ohura | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Valley | compound |
| 8 | Valley | Valley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 grew | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lands | punct |
| 10 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 lands | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lands | det |
| 12 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lands | amod |
| 13 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Valley | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Country | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Country | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Country | compound |
| 17 | Country | Country | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 lands | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Taranaki | cc |
| 19 | Taranaki | Taranaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Country | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ongaonga | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ongaonga | det |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 ongaonga | punct |
| 23 | ongaonga | ongaonga | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Valley | conj |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Valley | punct |
| 25 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 shrubs | case |
| 27 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 shrubs | amod |
| 28 | shrubs | shrub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 grew | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 feet | punct |
| 30 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 feet | nummod |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 twelve | cc |
| 32 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 ten | conj |
| 33 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 high | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 grew | advcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 virulence | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 virulence | cc |
| 37 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 virulence | nmod:poss |
| 38 | virulence | virulence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 grew | obl |
| 39 | apparently | apparently | ADV | _ | 42 proportion | advmod |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 proportion | cop |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 proportion | case |
| 42 | proportion | proportion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 virulence | nmod |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 growth | case |
| 44 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 growth | nmod:poss |
| 45 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 proportion | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the Ohura Valley and the open lands of the King Country and Taranaki and the ongaonga | valley's virulence | into tall shrubs result; yonder property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into shrub=Result | |||
| 2 | is | past | proportion | to valley's growth; apparently property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow | valley | nom growth «process intransitive»: poss=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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