Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 1
In the little Maori _kainga_ of Rapaki, folded away in a valley-fan of Lyttelton harbour-side, there is a tiny, steep-roofed church, of old-fashioned build, and by the side of this church stands a twisty-branched old ribbonwood tree, that in summer showers over porch and steeple its sweet, snowy blossoms, scented like the orange tree.
Who acts: tiny steep roofed church · What happens: fold away, be, roof, stand, branch, scent · To what, where: Rapaki, valley fan, little Maori, branched old ribbonwood tree, sweet snowy blossoms
This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tiny steep roofed church), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 Maori | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Maori | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Maori | amod |
| 4 | Maori | Maori | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 is | obl |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 kainga | punct |
| 6 | kainga | kainga | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 Maori | dep |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Rapaki | punct |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Rapaki | case |
| 9 | Rapaki | Rapaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 kainga | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 folded | punct |
| 11 | folded | fold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Rapaki | acl |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 folded | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 fan | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fan | det |
| 15 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fan | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 valley | punct |
| 17 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 folded | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 side | case |
| 19 | Lyttelton | Lyttelton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 side | compound |
| 20 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 side | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 harbour | punct |
| 22 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fan | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Maori | punct |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 is | expl |
| 25 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 church | det |
| 27 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 church | amod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 tiny | punct |
| 29 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 church | amod |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 steep | punct |
| 31 | roofed | roof | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 church | amod |
| 32 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 is | nsubj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 build | punct |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 build | case |
| 35 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 fashioned | amod |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 old | punct |
| 37 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 build | amod |
| 38 | build | build | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 church | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 stands | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 stands | cc |
| 41 | by | by | ADP | _ | 43 side | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 side | det |
| 43 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 stands | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 church | case |
| 45 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 46 church | det |
| 46 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 side | nmod |
| 47 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 is | conj |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 54 tree | det |
| 49 | twisty | twisty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 branched | compound |
| 50 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 49 twisty | punct |
| 51 | branched | branch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 54 tree | amod |
| 52 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 tree | amod |
| 53 | ribbonwood | ribbonwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 tree | compound |
| 54 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 stands | obj |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 that | punct |
| 56 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 54 tree | nmod |
| 57 | in | in | ADP | _ | 59 showers | case |
| 58 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 showers | compound |
| 59 | showers | shower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 56 that | nmod |
| 60 | over | over | ADP | _ | 61 porch | case |
| 61 | porch | porch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 showers | nmod |
| 62 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 63 steeple | cc |
| 63 | steeple | steeple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 porch | conj |
| 64 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 68 blossoms | nmod:poss |
| 65 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 68 blossoms | amod |
| 66 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 68 blossoms | punct |
| 67 | snowy | snowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 68 blossoms | amod |
| 68 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 59 showers | conj |
| 69 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 70 scented | punct |
| 70 | scented | scent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 68 blossoms | acl |
| 71 | like | like | ADP | _ | 74 tree | case |
| 72 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 74 tree | det |
| 73 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 74 tree | amod |
| 74 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 70 scented | obl |
| 75 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fold away | participle | Rapaki not said here | a valley fan of Lyttelton harbour side | away property | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | does | present | a tiny steep roofed church and fashioned build | the little Maori; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in maori=Location | ||||
| 3 | roof | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | stand | present | a tiny steep roofed church and fashioned build not said here | a branched old ribbonwood tree that in summer showers over porch and steeple and steeple's sweet snowy blossoms | by the side of this church | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme by side=Destination | |||
| 5 | branch | participle | vn differ-23.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | scent | participle | steeple's sweet snowy blossoms not said here | like the orange tree | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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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