Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 42
Tender handed stroke a nettle And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains.
Who acts: nettle, your · What happens: hand, sting, grasp, pain · To what, where: you, nettle, Tender handed stroke
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 (nettle, your), 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 | Tender | tender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stroke | compound |
| 2 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stroke | amod |
| 3 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 nettle | det |
| 5 | nettle | nettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stroke | appos |
| 6 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stings | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stings | nsubj |
| 8 | stings | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 nettle | acl:relcl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 stings | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 pains | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 pains | nmod:poss |
| 12 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stings | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 Grasp | punct |
| 14 | Grasp | grasp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stroke | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 Grasp | obj |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 man | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Grasp | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 mettle | case |
| 20 | mettle | mettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 man | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 soft | punct |
| 22 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 soft | cc |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 soft | nsubj |
| 24 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Grasp | conj |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 remains | case |
| 26 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 remains | compound |
| 27 | remains | remains | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 24 soft | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stroke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand | participle | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | sting | present | nettle | you | for your pains | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | grasp | infinitive | nettle | like a man of mettle | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | pain | your | nom pain «state transitive»: 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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