Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 39

Really bad _ongaonga_ stings provoke feverish sickness; and so it is prudent to make a detour on these hill slopes rather than encounter over-closely even these insignificant little specimens.

Who acts: stings, sickness, detour · What happens: provoke, be, make, slope · To what, where: feverish sickness, insignificant little specimens

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 (stings, sickness, detour), 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	Really	really	ADV	_	2 bad	advmod
2	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 bad	punct
4	ongaonga	ongaonga	X	Foreign=Yes	2 bad	dep
5	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 provoke	punct
6	stings	sting	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 provoke	nsubj
7	provoke	provoke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 bad	parataxis
8	feverish	feverish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sickness	amod
9	sickness	sickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 provoke	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 prudent	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 prudent	cc
12	so	so	ADV	_	15 prudent	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 prudent	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 prudent	cop
15	prudent	prudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bad	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 make	mark
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 prudent	advcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 detour	det
19	detour	detour	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 slopes	nsubj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 hill	case
21	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	22 hill	det
22	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 detour	nmod
23	slopes	slope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 make	ccomp
24	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	26 encounter	cc
25	than	than	ADP	_	24 rather	fixed
26	encounter	encounter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 slopes	conj
27	over-closely	over-closely	ADV	_	32 specimens	advmod
28	even	even	ADV	_	32 specimens	advmod
29	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	32 specimens	det
30	insignificant	insignificant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 specimens	amod
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 specimens	amod
32	specimens	specimen	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 slopes	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	provoke	present	stings	feverish sickness		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sickness=Experiencer
2	is	present	sickness		prudent property	tree rules
3	make	to-infinitive	sickness not said here			tree rules
4	slope	present	a detour on this hill	this insignificant little specimens	encounter conj	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 39

The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 39