Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 49
_Aka_ vines interlace the close-growing trees and here and there present tangling obstacles to a passage along the gully sides.
Who acts: vines · What happens: interlace, grow · To what, where: growing trees
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 (vines), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 interlace | punct |
| 2 | Aka | aka | ADV | _ | 5 interlace | advmod |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 vines | punct |
| 4 | vines | vine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 interlace | nsubj |
| 5 | interlace | interlace | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 trees | det |
| 7 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 growing | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 close | punct |
| 9 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 trees | amod |
| 10 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 interlace | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 here | cc |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 trees | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 obstacles | cc |
| 14 | there | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Typo=Yes | 17 obstacles | nmod:poss |
| 15 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 obstacles | amod |
| 16 | tangling | tangling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 obstacles | compound |
| 17 | obstacles | obstacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 trees | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 passage | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 passage | det |
| 20 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 interlace | obl |
| 21 | along | along | ADP | _ | 24 sides | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sides | det |
| 23 | gully | gully | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sides | compound |
| 24 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 passage | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 interlace | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | interlace | infinitive | vines | the growing trees and there's present tangling obstacles | to a passage along the gully sides; aka property | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | |||
| 2 | grow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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