Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 55
There are perhaps half a dozen of these subsidiary valleys, and each one is filled with a sweet green mass of light bush similar to that behind us.
Who acts: dozen · What happens: be, fill, bush · To what, where: one
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 (dozen), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 6 dozen | advmod |
| 4 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 6 dozen | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dozen | det |
| 6 | dozen | dozen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 are | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 valleys | case |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 valleys | det |
| 9 | subsidiary | subsidiary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 valleys | amod |
| 10 | valleys | valley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dozen | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 filled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 filled | cc |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 filled | aux:pass |
| 16 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 are | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 mass | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 mass | det |
| 19 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 mass | amod |
| 20 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 mass | amod |
| 21 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bush | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 light | case |
| 23 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mass | nmod |
| 24 | bush | bush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 filled | advcl |
| 25 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bush | xcomp |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 that | case |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 similar | obl |
| 28 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 29 us | case |
| 29 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 similar | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | half dozen of this subsidiary valleys | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fill | present · passive | each one | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | bush | present | with a sweet green mass of light; similar property | tree rules |
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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