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Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 103

And from this hillside turn in the road where we get our first glimpse of Rapaki, we may also most fitly take our sunset farewell of the _kainga_ of an artist’s dream.

Who acts: we, our, artist · What happens: get, take, glimpse, dream · To what, where: first glimpse, sunset farewell, hillside turn, Rapaki

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 (we, our, artist), 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

cccasedetcompoundoblcasedetnmodadvmodnsubjacl:relclnmod:possamodobjcasenmodpunctnsubjauxadvmodadvmodadvmodnmod:posscompoundobjcasedetpunctnmoddiscoursecasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctrootAndCCONJfromADPthisDEThillsideNOUNturnNOUNinADPtheDETroadNOUNwhereADVwePRONgetVERBourPRONfirstADJglimpseNOUNofADPRapakiPROPN,PUNCTwePRONmayAUXalsoADVmostADVfitlyADVtakeVERBourPRONsunsetNOUNfarewellNOUNofADPtheDET_PUNCTkaingaPROPN_PUNCTofADPanDETartistNOUN’sPARTdreamNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_23 takecc
2fromfromADP_5 turncase
3thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem5 turndet
4hillsidehillsideNOUNNumber=Sing5 turncompound
5turnturnNOUNNumber=Sing23 takeobl
6ininADP_8 roadcase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 roaddet
8roadroadNOUNNumber=Sing5 turnnmod
9wherewhereADVPronType=Rel11 getadvmod
10wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs11 getnsubj
11getgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin8 roadacl:relcl
12ourourPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 glimpsenmod:poss
13firstfirstADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord14 glimpseamod
14glimpseglimpseNOUNNumber=Sing11 getobj
15ofofADP_16 Rapakicase
16RapakiRapakiPROPNNumber=Sing14 glimpsenmod
17,,PUNCT_5 turnpunct
18wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs23 takensubj
19maymayAUXVerbForm=Fin23 takeaux
20alsoalsoADV_23 takeadvmod
21mostmostADVDegree=Sup22 fitlyadvmod
22fitlyfitlyADV_23 takeadvmod
23taketakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
24ourourPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 farewellnmod:poss
25sunsetsunsetNOUNNumber=Sing26 farewellcompound
26farewellfarewellNOUNNumber=Sing23 takeobj
27ofofADP_30 kaingacase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 kaingadet
29__PUNCT_30 kaingapunct
30kaingakaingaPROPNNumber=Sing26 farewellnmod
31__PUNCT_23 takediscourse
32ofofADP_36 dreamcase
33anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art34 artistdet
34artistartistNOUNNumber=Sing36 dreamnmod:poss
35’s'sPART_34 artistcase
36dreamdreamNOUNNumber=Sing31 _obl
37..PUNCT_23 takepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1getpresentweour first glimpse of Rapakivn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glimpse=Stimulus
2takemayweour sunset farewell of the kaingathis hillside turn in the roadfitly propertyvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent farewell=Theme from turn=Initial_Location
3glimpseourRapakinom glimpse «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient
4dreama artistnom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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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