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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 take | cc |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 turn | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 turn | det |
| 4 | hillside | hillside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turn | compound |
| 5 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 take | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 road | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 road | det |
| 8 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turn | nmod |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 get | advmod |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 get | nsubj |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 road | acl:relcl |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 glimpse | nmod:poss |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 glimpse | amod |
| 14 | glimpse | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Rapaki | case |
| 16 | Rapaki | Rapaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 glimpse | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 turn | punct |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 take | nsubj |
| 19 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 take | aux |
| 20 | also | also | ADV | _ | 23 take | advmod |
| 21 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 22 fitly | advmod |
| 22 | fitly | fitly | ADV | _ | 23 take | advmod |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 farewell | nmod:poss |
| 25 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 farewell | compound |
| 26 | farewell | farewell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 take | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 kainga | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 kainga | det |
| 29 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 30 kainga | punct |
| 30 | kainga | kainga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 farewell | nmod |
| 31 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 take | discourse |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 dream | case |
| 33 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 artist | det |
| 34 | artist | artist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 dream | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 34 artist | case |
| 36 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 _ | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | we | our first glimpse of Rapaki | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glimpse=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | take | may | we | our sunset farewell of the kainga | this hillside turn in the road | fitly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent farewell=Theme from turn=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | glimpse | our | Rapaki | nom glimpse «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | |||||
| 4 | dream | a artist | nom 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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