Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 74
The picture from the breezy ridge is worth the warm scramble up through the matted bit of woodland.
Who acts: picture, warm · What happens: be, scramble up, mat · To what, where: matted bit
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 (picture, warm), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 picture | det |
| 2 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 worth | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 ridge | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ridge | det |
| 5 | breezy | breezy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ridge | amod |
| 6 | ridge | ridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 picture | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 worth | cop |
| 8 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 warm | det |
| 10 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 scramble | nsubj |
| 11 | scramble | scramble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 worth | parataxis |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 scramble | compound:prt |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 bit | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bit | det |
| 15 | matted | mat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 bit | amod |
| 16 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 scramble | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 woodland | case |
| 18 | woodland | woodland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bit | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 worth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the picture from the breezy ridge | worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | scramble up | present | the warm | the matted bit of woodland | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through bit=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | mat | participle | tree rules |
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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