Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 44
The Port Hills, south-west of Dyer’s Pass, viewed from the lower slopes of Sugar Loaf, above the Governor’s Bay road
What happens: view · To what, where: south west, lower slopes, Port Hills
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Hills | det |
| 2 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Hills | compound |
| 3 | Hills | Hill | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 west | punct |
| 5 | south | south | ADV | _ | 7 west | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 south | punct |
| 7 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Hills | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Pass | case |
| 9 | Dyer | Dyer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Pass | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Dyer | case |
| 11 | Pass | Pass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 west | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 viewed | punct |
| 13 | viewed | view | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 west | acl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 slopes | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 slopes | det |
| 16 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 slopes | amod |
| 17 | slopes | slope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 viewed | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Loaf | case |
| 19 | Sugar | Sugar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Loaf | compound |
| 20 | Loaf | Loaf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 slopes | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 road | punct |
| 22 | above | above | ADP | _ | 27 road | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Governor | det |
| 24 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Bay | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 Governor | case |
| 26 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 road | compound |
| 27 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 viewed | obl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | view | participle | south west of Dyer's Pass not said here | the lower slopes of Sugar Loaf | above Bay road | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=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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