Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 75
The long smooth rolls of hills go down to the Plains on the one hand; on the other the harbour and beyond the cloud-belted heights of the Peninsula.
Who acts: long smooth rolls · What happens: go down, belt, roll · To what, where: one hand, hills
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 (long smooth rolls), 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 | 4 rolls | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rolls | amod |
| 3 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rolls | amod |
| 4 | rolls | roll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 go | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 hills | case |
| 6 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rolls | nmod |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Plains | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Plains | det |
| 11 | Plains | Plain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 go | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 hand | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hand | det |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 hand | nummod |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 other | punct |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 other | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 other | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 go | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 harbour | det |
| 21 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 other | appos |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 heights | cc |
| 23 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 28 heights | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 heights | det |
| 25 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 belted | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 cloud | punct |
| 27 | belted | belt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 heights | amod |
| 28 | heights | height | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 harbour | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Peninsula | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Peninsula | det |
| 31 | Peninsula | Peninsula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 heights | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | present | the long smooth rolls of hills | the one hand | to the Plains; down property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on hand=Location | |||
| 2 | belt | participle | cloud compound | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | roll | hills | nom roll «event transitive»: of=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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