Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 57
The curving lines converge, the shouldering ridges fall away as the now dry watercourses blend into one hundreds of feet below the rocky elbow of ours.
Who acts: curving lines, shouldering ridges, dry watercourses · What happens: converge, fall away, blend
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 (curving lines, shouldering ridges, dry watercourses), 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 lines | det |
| 2 | curving | curving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lines | amod |
| 3 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 converge | nsubj |
| 4 | converge | converge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fall | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ridges | det |
| 7 | shouldering | shouldering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ridges | compound |
| 8 | ridges | ridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fall | nsubj |
| 9 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 converge | conj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 fall | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 blend | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 watercourses | det |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 dry | advmod |
| 14 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 watercourses | amod |
| 15 | watercourses | watercourse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 blend | nsubj |
| 16 | blend | blend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fall | advcl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 hundreds | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 hundreds | nummod |
| 19 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 blend | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 feet | case |
| 21 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hundreds | nmod |
| 22 | below | below | ADP | _ | 25 elbow | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 elbow | det |
| 24 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 elbow | amod |
| 25 | elbow | elbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 blend | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 ours | case |
| 27 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 elbow | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 converge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | converge | present | the curving lines | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fall away | present | the shouldering ridges | away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | blend | present | the dry watercourses | below the rocky elbow of ours; into one hundreds of feet | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient into hundred=Co-Patient |
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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