Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 60
When the bush bird-foods are ripe the _tui_ sometimes pays this valley a visit from larger woodland tracks.
Who acts: bush bird foods, _ tui · What happens: be, pay · To what, where: 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 (bush bird foods, _ tui), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 ripe | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 foods | det |
| 3 | bush | bush | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 foods | amod |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 foods | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 bird | punct |
| 6 | foods | food | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ripe | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ripe | cop |
| 8 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pays | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tui | det |
| 10 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tui | amod |
| 11 | tui | tui | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pays | nsubj |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 tui | punct |
| 13 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 pays | advmod |
| 14 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 valley | det |
| 16 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pays | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 visit | det |
| 18 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pays | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 tracks | case |
| 20 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 tracks | amod |
| 21 | woodland | woodland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tracks | compound |
| 22 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 visit | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 pays | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the bush bird foods | ripe property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pay | present | the _ tui | this valley | a visit obj; sometimes property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent valley=Recipient visit=Asset |
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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