Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 58
It is perhaps half a mile across the main gully and we fix a course for the Summit track on the ridge northwards and strike down through the bush.
Who acts: bush, we · What happens: be, fix, strike down · To what, where: mile, main gully, course, ridge, bush
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 (bush, we), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 mile | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mile | cop |
| 3 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 4 half | advmod |
| 4 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 6 mile | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mile | det |
| 6 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | across | across | ADP | _ | 10 gully | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gully | det |
| 9 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gully | amod |
| 10 | gully | gully | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mile | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fix | cc |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 fix | nsubj |
| 13 | fix | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mile | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 course | det |
| 15 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fix | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 track | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 track | det |
| 18 | Summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 track | compound |
| 19 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fix | obl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 ridge | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ridge | det |
| 22 | ridge | ridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fix | obl |
| 23 | northwards | northwards | ADV | _ | 13 fix | advmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 strike | cc |
| 25 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 fix | conj |
| 26 | down | down | ADV | _ | 25 strike | advmod |
| 27 | through | through | ADP | _ | 29 bush | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bush | det |
| 29 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 strike | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mile | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | bush | half mile | the main gully | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fix | present | we | a course | the ridge | for the Summit track; northwards property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent course=Product for track=Beneficiary | ||
| 3 | strike down | infinitive | we not said here | the bush | down property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through bush=Location |
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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