Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 79
Out near the Pass the crannied walls of old Kahukura echo to the voices of a party of girls, a botany class from the city.
What happens: cranny
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: 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 | Out | out | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | near | near | ADP | _ | 4 Pass | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Pass | det |
| 4 | Pass | Pass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Out | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 walls | det |
| 6 | crannied | cranny | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 walls | amod |
| 7 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Pass | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 echo | case |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 echo | amod |
| 10 | Kahukura | Kahukura | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 echo | compound |
| 11 | echo | echo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walls | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 voices | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 voices | det |
| 14 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 echo | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 party | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 party | det |
| 17 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 voices | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 girls | case |
| 19 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 party | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 class | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 class | det |
| 22 | botany | botany | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 class | compound |
| 23 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 echo | conj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 city | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 city | det |
| 26 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 class | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Out | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cranny | 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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