Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 80
The instructor is improving the half-holiday with a practical talk on the native flora, and twenty notebooks are out and pencils busy.
Who acts: instructor, twenty notebooks · What happens: improve, be · To what, where: half holiday, pencils
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 (instructor, twenty notebooks), 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 instructor | det |
| 2 | instructor | instructor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 improving | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 improving | aux |
| 4 | improving | improve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 holiday | det |
| 6 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 8 holiday | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 half | punct |
| 8 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 improving | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 talk | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 talk | det |
| 11 | practical | practical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 talk | amod |
| 12 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 improving | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 flora | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 flora | det |
| 15 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 flora | amod |
| 16 | flora | flora | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 talk | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 out | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 out | cc |
| 19 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 notebooks | nummod |
| 20 | notebooks | notebook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 out | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 out | cop |
| 22 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 improving | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 busy | cc |
| 24 | pencils | pencil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 busy | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 out | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 improving | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | improve | present · progressive | the instructor | the half holiday | with a practical talk on the native flora | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent holiday=Patient with talk=Instrument | |||
| 2 | is | present | twenty notebooks | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | twenty notebooks not said here | pencils | 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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