Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 43
Don’t, if you value your skin, try that on the _ongaonga_.
Who acts: you · What happens: not do, value, try · To what, where: skin, that, ongaonga
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 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 1 Do | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 value | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 value | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 value | nsubj |
| 6 | value | value | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Do | parataxis |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 skin | nmod:poss |
| 8 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 value | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 try | punct |
| 10 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 value | parataxis |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 try | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 ongaonga | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ongaonga | det |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 ongaonga | punct |
| 15 | ongaonga | ongaonga | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 try | obl |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 try | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | imperative | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | value a condition, not said to happen | present | you | your skin | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skin=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | try | infinitive | that | the ongaonga | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
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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