Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 69

As we make upwards, with care evading the diabolical _ongaonga_ that haunts the bush outskirts, we strike a steep face, with here and there a dripping of water glistening on the moss-crusted rock and on the little flax and _koromiko_ plants that root themselves in tiny crevices.

Who acts: we, care, that, dripping, plants · What happens: make, evade, haunt, strike, glisten, crust · To what, where: diabolical, bush outskirts, steep face, plants, crusted rock, faces

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, care, that, dripping), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 make	mark
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 strike	advcl
4	upwards	upwards	ADV	_	3 make	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 care	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 care	case
7	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obl
8	evading	evade	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 care	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 diabolical	det
10	diabolical	diabolical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 evading	obj
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 ongaonga	punct
12	ongaonga	ongaonga	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 evading	obl
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	15 haunts	punct
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 haunts	nsubj
15	haunts	haunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 make	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 outskirts	det
17	bush	bush	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 outskirts	amod
18	outskirts	outskirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 haunts	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 strike	nsubj
21	strike	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 face	det
23	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 face	amod
24	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 strike	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 here	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 here	case
27	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 strike	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 there	cc
29	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 here	expl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 dripping	det
31	dripping	dripping	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 here	nsubj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 water	case
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dripping	nmod
34	glistening	glisten	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 dripping	acl
35	on	on	ADP	_	40 rock	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 rock	det
37	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 crusted	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 moss	punct
39	crusted	crust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 rock	amod
40	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 glistening	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 flax	cc
42	on	on	ADP	_	45 flax	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 flax	det
44	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 flax	amod
45	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 rock	conj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 koromiko	cc
47	_	_	PUNCT	_	48 koromiko	punct
48	koromiko	koromiko	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 rock	conj
49	_	_	PUNCT	_	50 plants	punct
50	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 glistening	obl
51	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 root	nsubj
52	root	root	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 plants	acl:relcl
53	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	52 root	obj
54	in	in	ADP	_	56 crevices	case
55	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 crevices	amod
56	crevices	crevice	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 root	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 strike	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	present	we			with care; upwards property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	evade	gerund	care not said here	the diabolical		ongaonga obl	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent diabolical=Location
3	haunt	present	that	the bush outskirts			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus outskirt=Experiencer
4	strike	present	we	a steep face			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient
5	glisten	gerund	a dripping of water not said here	plants	the crusted rock and the little flax and koromiko		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rock=Location
6	crust	participle				moss compound	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	root	present	plants	faces = face	tiny crevices		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient

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 69

The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 69