Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 104
The sun is over the range, and Tamatea’s gloomy peak is outlined in sharp symmetry against the burning west.
Who acts: sun, sharp symmetry · What happens: be, outline, burn · To what, where: range, Tamatea, sharp symmetry
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 (sun, sharp symmetry), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 range | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 range | cop |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 range | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 range | det |
| 6 | range | range | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 outlined | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 outlined | cc |
| 9 | Tamatea | Tamatea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 outlined | nsubj |
| 10 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 outlined | aux |
| 11 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 peak | amod |
| 12 | peak | peak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 outlined | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 outlined | aux:pass |
| 14 | outlined | outline | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 range | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 symmetry | case |
| 16 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 symmetry | amod |
| 17 | symmetry | symmetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 outlined | obl |
| 18 | against | against | SCONJ | _ | 20 burning | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 burning | det |
| 20 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 symmetry | acl |
| 21 | west | west | ADV | _ | 20 burning | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 range | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the sun | the range | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | outline speech: other | present · passive | Tamatea | sharp symmetry | gloomy peak nsubj:pass | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||
| 3 | burn | gerund | sharp symmetry not said here | west property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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