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Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 51

Making north-east with the general curve of the Sugarloaf slopes we leave the first bush patch and, breasting another wild garden of flax, with here and there a cabbage-tree sweetening the air with its creamy flowers, discover a deep trend to the north-west into the main valley.

Who acts: Making, we, cabbage tree · What happens: make, slope, leave, breast, sweeten, discover · To what, where: north east, first bush patch, wild garden, air, deep trend, main valley

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 (Making, we, cabbage tree), 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

csubjcompoundpunctobjcasedetamodoblcasedetnmodnsubjccompdetamodcompoundobjccpunctconjdetamodobjcasenmodpunctcaseadvmodccexpldetcompoundpunctobjacldetobjcasenmod:possamodoblpunctconjdetamodobjcasedetcompoundpunctoblcasedetamodoblpunctrootMakingVERBnorthNOUN-PUNCTeastNOUNwithADPtheDETgeneralADJcurveNOUNofADPtheDETSugarloafPROPNslopesVERBwePRONleaveVERBtheDETfirstADJbushNOUNpatchNOUNandCCONJ,PUNCTbreastingVERBanotherDETwildADJgardenNOUNofADPflaxNOUN,PUNCTwithADPhereADVandCCONJtherePRONaDETcabbageNOUN-PUNCTtreeNOUNsweeteningVERBtheDETairNOUNwithADPitsPRONcreamyADJflowersNOUN,PUNCTdiscoverVERBaDETdeepADJtrendNOUNtoADPtheDETnorthNOUN-PUNCTwestNOUNintoADPtheDETmainADJvalleyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1MakingmakeVERBVerbForm=Ger12 slopescsubj
2northnorthNOUNNumber=Sing4 eastcompound
3--PUNCT_2 northpunct
4easteastNOUNNumber=Sing1 Makingobj
5withwithADP_8 curvecase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 curvedet
7generalgeneralADJDegree=Pos8 curveamod
8curvecurveNOUNNumber=Sing1 Makingobl
9ofofADP_11 Sugarloafcase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 Sugarloafdet
11SugarloafSugarloafPROPNNumber=Sing8 curvenmod
12slopesslopeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
13wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs14 leavensubj
14leaveleaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin12 slopesccomp
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 patchdet
16firstfirstADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord18 patchamod
17bushbushNOUNNumber=Sing18 patchcompound
18patchpatchNOUNNumber=Sing14 leaveobj
19andandCCONJ_21 breastingcc
20,,PUNCT_21 breastingpunct
21breastingbreastVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part18 patchconj
22anotheranotherDETPronType=Ind24 gardendet
23wildwildADJDegree=Pos24 gardenamod
24gardengardenNOUNNumber=Sing21 breastingobj
25ofofADP_26 flaxcase
26flaxflaxNOUNNumber=Sing24 gardennmod
27,,PUNCT_29 herepunct
28withwithADP_29 herecase
29herehereADVPronType=Dem14 leaveadvmod
30andandCCONJ_31 therecc
31theretherePRONPronType=Dem29 hereexpl
32aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art35 treedet
33cabbagecabbageNOUNNumber=Sing35 treecompound
34--PUNCT_33 cabbagepunct
35treetreeNOUNNumber=Sing31 thereobj
36sweeteningsweetenVERBVerbForm=Ger35 treeacl
37thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art38 airdet
38airairNOUNNumber=Sing36 sweeteningobj
39withwithADP_42 flowerscase
40itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs42 flowersnmod:poss
41creamycreamyADJDegree=Pos42 flowersamod
42flowersflowerNOUNNumber=Plur36 sweeteningobl
43,,PUNCT_44 discoverpunct
44discoverdiscoverVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin42 flowersconj
45aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art47 trenddet
46deepdeepADJDegree=Pos47 trendamod
47trendtrendNOUNNumber=Sing44 discoverobj
48totoADP_52 westcase
49thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art52 westdet
50northnorthNOUNNumber=Sing52 westcompound
51--PUNCT_50 northpunct
52westwestNOUNNumber=Sing44 discoverobl
53intointoADP_56 valleycase
54thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art56 valleydet
55mainmainADJDegree=Pos56 valleyamod
56valleyvalleyNOUNNumber=Sing44 discoverobl
57..PUNCT_12 slopespunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1makegerundnorth eastwith the general curve of the Sugarloafvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset east=Product
2slopepresentMakingtree rules
3leavepresentwethe first bush patchvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patch=Theme
4breastgerundwe not said hereanother wild garden of flaxvn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Theme
5sweetengerunda cabbage tree not said herethe airwith air's creamy flowersvn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent air=Patient with flower=Instrument
6discoverpresenta cabbage tree not said herea deep trendthe main valleyto the north westvn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trend=Topic

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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