Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 81
“This,” announces the mentor as the class clusters round, “is a very peculiar plant, Urtica ferox, so called because----”
Who acts: This, class · What happens: announce, cluster, be, call · To what, where: mentor, peculiar plant · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (This, class), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 announces | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 announces | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 This | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 This | punct |
| 5 | announces | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mentor | det |
| 7 | mentor | mentor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 announces | obj |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 clusters | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 class | det |
| 10 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 clusters | nsubj |
| 11 | clusters | cluster | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 announces | advcl |
| 12 | round | round | ADV | _ | 11 clusters | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 plant | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 plant | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 plant | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 plant | det |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 peculiar | advmod |
| 18 | peculiar | peculiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 plant | amod |
| 19 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 clusters | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ferox | punct |
| 21 | Urtica | Urtica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 ferox | compound |
| 22 | ferox | ferox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 plant | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 called | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 called | advmod |
| 25 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 announces | parataxis |
| 26 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 25 called | mark |
| 27 | ---- | ---- | PUNCT | _ | 26 because | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | announce speech: other | present | This | the mentor | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cluster | present | the class | round property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | a peculiar plant | Urtica ferox appos | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | call in a quote | participle | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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