Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 71
Above there is a jungle of _koromiko_, a veronica which here assumes sub-alpine habit, and weaves a wire entanglement, fortunately minus the barbs--the _tataramoa_ or bush-lawyer in the thicket below supplies those in plenty.
Who acts: jungle, veronica · What happens: be, assume, weave · To what, where: sub-alpine habit, wire entanglement
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 (jungle, veronica), 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 | Above | above | ADP | _ | 3 is | case |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 weaves | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 jungle | det |
| 5 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 koromiko | case |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 of | punct |
| 8 | koromiko | koromiko | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 jungle | nmod |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 jungle | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 veronica | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 veronica | det |
| 12 | veronica | veronica | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 jungle | conj |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 assumes | nsubj |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 assumes | advmod |
| 15 | assumes | assume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 veronica | acl:relcl |
| 16 | sub-alpine | sub-alpine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 habit | amod |
| 17 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 assumes | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 weaves | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 weaves | cc |
| 20 | weaves | weave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 entanglement | det |
| 22 | wire | wire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 entanglement | compound |
| 23 | entanglement | entanglement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 weaves | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 barbs | punct |
| 25 | fortunately | fortunately | ADV | _ | 28 barbs | advmod |
| 26 | minus | minus | ADP | _ | 28 barbs | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 barbs | det |
| 28 | barbs | barb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 weaves | obl |
| 29 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 33 _ | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 _ | det |
| 31 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 33 _ | punct |
| 32 | tataramoa | tataramoa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 _ | compound |
| 33 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 barbs | nmod |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 lawyer | cc |
| 35 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 lawyer | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 bush | punct |
| 37 | lawyer | lawyer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 _ | conj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 thicket | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 thicket | det |
| 40 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 lawyer | nmod |
| 41 | below | below | ADP | _ | 42 supplies | case |
| 42 | supplies | supplies | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 40 thicket | nmod |
| 43 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 42 supplies | nmod |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 plenty | case |
| 45 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 those | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 weaves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | a jungle of koromiko and a veronica | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | assume | present | a veronica | sub-alpine habit | here | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent habit=Theme | |||
| 3 | weave | present | a wire entanglement | minus the barbs the tataramoa _ or bush lawyer in the thicket below supplies those in plenty | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent entanglement=Product |
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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