Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 8
And at about this level on the Hills side there are aspects of crag scenery, and crag and woodland combined, that are altogether missed by the stroller who keeps to the beaten track.
Who acts: aspects, stroller · What happens: be, combine, miss, keep, beat · To what, where: level, crag, that
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 (aspects, stroller), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 are | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 level | case |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 level | advmod |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 level | det |
| 5 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 are | obl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 side | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 side | det |
| 8 | Hills | Hill | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 side | compound |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 level | nmod |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 are | expl |
| 11 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | aspects | aspect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 are | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 scenery | case |
| 14 | crag | crag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 scenery | compound |
| 15 | scenery | scenery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 aspects | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 combined | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 combined | cc |
| 18 | crag | crag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 combined | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 woodland | cc |
| 20 | woodland | woodland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 crag | conj |
| 21 | combined | combine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 are | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 missed | punct |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 missed | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 missed | aux |
| 25 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 26 missed | advmod |
| 26 | missed | miss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 combined | conj |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 stroller | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 stroller | det |
| 29 | stroller | stroller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 missed | obl |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 keeps | nsubj |
| 31 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 stroller | acl:relcl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 track | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 track | det |
| 34 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 track | amod |
| 35 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 keeps | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | aspects of crag scenery | this level on the Hills side; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at level=Location | ||||
| 2 | combine | participle · passive | crag and woodland | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | miss | present · passive | the stroller | that | altogether property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | keep | present | the stroller | to the beaten track | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | beat | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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