Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 41
And don’t attempt to apply to our Maori Land nettle the amiable counsel of old Aaron Hill that was given out to us in our school days:--
Who acts: you · What happens: not attempt, not apply, nettle, give out · To what, where: amiable counsel, Maori Land, us
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 (you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 attempt | cc |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 attempt | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 attempt | advmod |
| 4 | attempt | attempt | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 apply | mark |
| 6 | apply | apply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 attempt | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Land | case |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Land | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Maori | Maori | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Land | compound |
| 10 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 nettle | obl |
| 11 | nettle | nettle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 attempt | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 counsel | det |
| 13 | amiable | amiable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 counsel | amod |
| 14 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nettle | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Hill | case |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Hill | amod |
| 17 | Aaron | Aaron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Hill | compound |
| 18 | Hill | Hill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 counsel | nmod |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 given | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 given | aux:pass |
| 21 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 counsel | acl:relcl |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 given | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 us | case |
| 24 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 given | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 days | case |
| 26 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 days | nmod:poss |
| 27 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 days | compound |
| 28 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 given | obl |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 attempt | punct |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 attempt | discourse |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not attempt | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | not apply | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | nettle | present | the amiable counsel of old Aaron Hill | our Maori Land | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus counsel=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | give out | past · passive | the amiable counsel of old Aaron Hill | us | day | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to we=Recipient |
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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