Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 37
All of our exploring party were more or less badly stung and suffered the effects for a day or two, but the unfortunate horses suffered most.
Who acts: All, unfortunate horses · What happens: explore, be, sting, suffer · To what, where: effects
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 (All, unfortunate horses), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 stung | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 party | case |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 party | nmod:poss |
| 4 | exploring | explore | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 party | amod |
| 5 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 All | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 more | cop |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 stung | advmod |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 less | cc |
| 9 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 more | conj |
| 10 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 stung | advmod |
| 11 | stung | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 suffered | cc |
| 13 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stung | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 effects | det |
| 15 | effects | effect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 suffered | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 day | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 day | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 suffered | obl |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 two | cc |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 day | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 suffered | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 suffered | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 horses | det |
| 24 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 horses | amod |
| 25 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 suffered | nsubj |
| 26 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stung | conj |
| 27 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 26 suffered | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explore | gerund | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | more property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sting | past | All of our exploring party | badly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | suffer | past | All of our exploring party not said here | the effects | day | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer effect=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | suffer | past | the unfortunate horses | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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