Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 62
The floods that sometimes tear down have worn pot-holes here and there, and there are shallow caves obscured by tangles of roots and
Who acts: shallow caves · What happens: tear down, wear, be, obscure · To what, where: floods, shallow caves
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 (shallow caves), 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 | 2 floods | det |
| 2 | floods | flood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 worn | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 tear | obj |
| 4 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 tear | advmod |
| 5 | tear | tear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 floods | acl:relcl |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 tear | compound:prt |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 worn | aux |
| 8 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 holes | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 pot | punct |
| 11 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 worn | obj |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 worn | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 there | cc |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 here | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 are | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 are | cc |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 are | expl |
| 18 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 worn | conj |
| 19 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 caves | amod |
| 20 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 are | nsubj |
| 21 | obscured | obscure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 caves | acl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 tangles | case |
| 23 | tangles | tangle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 obscured | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 roots | case |
| 25 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 tangles | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 worn | cc |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear down | present | the floods | sometimes property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location that=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wear | present · perfect · passive | the floods | here; there | pot holes obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | does | present | shallow caves | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | obscure | participle | shallow caves not said here | by tangles of roots | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
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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