Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 4
Better still, truly to understand this most wonderful part of Canterbury, one should make a traverse of the upper parts of the eastern dip by the new tracks, two or three hundred feet below the pinnacles of the ridge.
Who acts: one · What happens: understand, make · To what, where: wonderful part, traverse
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 (one), 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 | Better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 still | advmod |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 understand | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 still | punct |
| 4 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 6 understand | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 understand | mark |
| 6 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 part | det |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 wonderful | advmod |
| 9 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 part | amod |
| 10 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 understand | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Canterbury | case |
| 12 | Canterbury | Canterbury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 part | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 14 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 make | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 make | aux |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 understand | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 traverse | det |
| 18 | traverse | traverse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 parts | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 parts | det |
| 21 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 parts | amod |
| 22 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 traverse | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 dip | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 dip | det |
| 25 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 dip | amod |
| 26 | dip | dip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 parts | nmod |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 tracks | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 tracks | det |
| 29 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 tracks | amod |
| 30 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 make | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 feet | punct |
| 32 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 hundred | compound |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 three | cc |
| 34 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 two | conj |
| 35 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 feet | nummod |
| 36 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 tracks | conj |
| 37 | below | below | ADP | _ | 39 pinnacles | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 pinnacles | det |
| 39 | pinnacles | pinnacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 feet | nmod |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 ridge | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 ridge | det |
| 42 | ridge | ridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 pinnacles | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 understand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | to-infinitive | this wonderful part of Canterbury | still | truly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer part=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | make | should | one | a traverse of the upper parts of the eastern dip | by the new tracks and hundred feet below the pinnacles of the ridge | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset traverse=Product |
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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