Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 65

Other of the trees take goblin-like shapes, and stretch out their bare roots and feelers, unsoftened by carpet of moss or ferns, to trip the intruder into their dim solitudes.

Who acts: Other · What happens: take, stretch out, unsoften, trip · To what, where: like shapes, bare roots, intruder, dim solitudes

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 (Other), 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	Other	Other	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 take	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 trees	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trees	det
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 take	obl
5	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 like	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 goblin	punct
8	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shapes	amod
9	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 take	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stretch	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stretch	cc
12	stretch	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 take	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 stretch	compound:prt
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 roots	nmod:poss
15	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 roots	amod
16	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stretch	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 feelers	cc
18	feelers	feeler	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 roots	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 unsoftened	punct
20	unsoftened	unsoften	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 roots	acl
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 carpet	case
22	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 unsoftened	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 moss	case
24	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carpet	nmod
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 ferns	cc
26	ferns	fern	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 carpet	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 trip	punct
28	to	to	PART	_	29 trip	mark
29	trip	trip	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 take	parataxis
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 intruder	det
31	intruder	intruder	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 trip	obj
32	into	into	ADP	_	35 solitudes	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 solitudes	nmod:poss
34	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 solitudes	amod
35	solitudes	solitude	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 trip	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	present	Other	like shapes		of the trees	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent shape=Theme of tree=Initial_Location
2	stretch out	infinitive	Other not said here	trees's bare roots and feelers			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent root=Patient
3	unsoften	participle		trees's bare roots and feelers not said here		by carpet of moss or ferns	tree rules
4	trip	to-infinitive		the intruder	trees's dim solitudes		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent intruder=Theme into solitude=Trajectory

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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🌲 Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 65

The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 65