🌲 Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 46

Lower down, however, the way is clear of this bush plague, and we find ourselves under a shady roof of thick foliage, woven of the cool green leaves of the broadleaf, a small _puka_, the _mahoe_ and _kowhai_ and other minor trees of the Maori bush with much of the _kotukutuku_, the native fuchsia, now come into flower, with its masses of slender pendulous blossom giving promise of abundant _konini_ berries for the birds.

Who acts: you, way, we, native fuchsia, masses · What happens: lower down, be, find, weave, come, give · To what, where: ourselves, shady roof, thick foliage, flower, promise

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, way, we, native fuchsia), 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

Pragmatics

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/11/46/