Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 76
A misty shower is sweeping over the far indigo hills, and a rainbow shines out, grandly spanning a sector of the Peninsula, from the back of Purau to the ocean.
Who acts: misty shower, rainbow · What happens: sweep, shine out, span · To what, where: far indigo hills, sector, back
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 (misty shower, rainbow), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 shower | det |
| 2 | misty | misty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shower | amod |
| 3 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sweeping | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sweeping | aux |
| 5 | sweeping | sweep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 hills | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hills | det |
| 8 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hills | amod |
| 9 | indigo | indigo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hills | compound |
| 10 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sweeping | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shines | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shines | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 rainbow | det |
| 14 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shines | nsubj |
| 15 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sweeping | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 shines | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 spanning | punct |
| 18 | grandly | grandly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 spanning | amod |
| 19 | spanning | span | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 sweeping | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 sector | det |
| 21 | sector | sector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spanning | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Peninsula | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Peninsula | det |
| 24 | Peninsula | Peninsula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 sector | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 back | punct |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 back | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 back | det |
| 28 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spanning | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Purau | case |
| 30 | Purau | Purau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 back | nmod |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 ocean | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 ocean | det |
| 33 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spanning | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sweeping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sweep | present · progressive | a misty shower | the far indigo hills | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | shine out | present | a rainbow | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | span | gerund | a misty shower not said here | a sector of the Peninsula | the back of Purau | to the ocean | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sector=Co-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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