Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 70
To gain the graded and formed track again, we swarm up the fifty-foot cliff, with _koromiko_ and _aka_ and flax for hand-grips.
Who acts: we · What happens: gain, grade, form, swarm up · To what, where: graded track, foot cliff
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), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 gain | mark |
| 2 | gain | gain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 swarm | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 track | det |
| 4 | graded | grade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 track | amod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 formed | cc |
| 6 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 graded | conj |
| 7 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gain | obj |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 gain | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 swarm | punct |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 swarm | nsubj |
| 11 | swarm | swarm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 swarm | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cliff | det |
| 14 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 foot | nummod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 fifty | punct |
| 16 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cliff | compound |
| 17 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swarm | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 koromiko | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 koromiko | case |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 with | punct |
| 21 | koromiko | koromiko | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swarm | obl |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 koromiko | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 flax | cc |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 aka | punct |
| 25 | aka | aka | ADV | _ | 28 flax | advmod |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 flax | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 flax | cc |
| 28 | flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swarm | conj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 grips | case |
| 30 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 grips | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 hand | punct |
| 32 | grips | grip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 flax | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 swarm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain | to-infinitive | we not said here | the graded track | again | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Theme | |||
| 2 | grade | participle | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | form | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | swarm up | present | we | the foot cliff | with koromiko; flax for hand grips conj | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with koromiko=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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