Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 67

_Totara_ of some size, we observe, once grew here; there is the tall, smooth barrel of a tree now dead.

Who acts: we, tall smooth barrel · What happens: observe, grow, be · To what, where: Totara

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 (we, tall smooth barrel), 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Totara	punct
2	Totara	Totara	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 observe	obl
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Totara	punct
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 size	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 size	det
6	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Totara	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 observe	punct
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 observe	nsubj
9	observe	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grew	punct
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 grew	advmod
12	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 observe	conj
13	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 grew	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 is	punct
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 is	expl
16	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 observe	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 barrel	det
18	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 barrel	amod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tall	punct
20	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 barrel	amod
21	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 is	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 tree	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 tree	det
24	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 barrel	nmod
25	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 dead	advmod
26	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tree	amod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 observe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	observe	present	we	Totara of some size			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	grow	past	we not said here		here	once property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	be	present	the tall smooth barrel of a tree		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 67

The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 67