Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 82
“Wow!” interrupts one of the earnest learners, as she stoops to rub a plump ankle.
Who acts: class · What happens: interrupt, stoop, rub · To what, where: one, plump ankle
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 (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 interrupts | punct |
| 2 | Wow | wow | INTJ | _ | 5 interrupts | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wow | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wow | punct |
| 5 | interrupts | interrupt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 interrupts | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 learners | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 learners | det |
| 9 | earnest | earn | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 learners | amod |
| 10 | learners | learner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stoops | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 stoops | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stoops | nsubj |
| 14 | stoops | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 interrupts | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 rub | mark |
| 16 | rub | rub | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 stoops | xcomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 ankle | det |
| 18 | plump | plump | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ankle | amod |
| 19 | ankle | ankle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rub | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 interrupts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | interrupt | present | one of the earnest learners | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stoop | present | class | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | rub | to-infinitive | class not said here | a plump ankle | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ankle=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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