Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 87
[Footnote 2: Carved above the porch of the Summit Road Rest House on Dyer’s Pass.]
What happens: carve · To what, where: Footnote, porch
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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
| 2 | Footnote | footnote | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Footnote | flat |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Carved | punct |
| 5 | Carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Footnote | acl |
| 6 | above | above | ADP | _ | 8 porch | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 porch | det |
| 8 | porch | porch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Carved | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 House | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 House | det |
| 11 | Summit | Summit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Road | compound |
| 12 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Rest | compound |
| 13 | Rest | Rest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 House | compound |
| 14 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 porch | nmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 Pass | case |
| 16 | Dyer | Dyer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Pass | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Dyer | case |
| 18 | Pass | Pass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Carved | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
| 20 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carve | participle | Footnote not said here | the porch of the Rest House | on Dyer's Pass | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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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