Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 107
The sun goes, and the delicacy, the tenderness of colour, the fading of landscape details into a haze like the camp-fire smokes of the legendary _Patu-paiarehe_, weave a veil of faery over the valley and the darkening sea.
Who acts: sun, landscape details, legendary · What happens: go, weave, darken, fade, smoke · To what, where: delicacy, haze, veil, valley
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, landscape details, legendary), 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 | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 delicacy | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 delicacy | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 delicacy | det |
| 7 | delicacy | delicacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tenderness | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tenderness | det |
| 10 | tenderness | tenderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 delicacy | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 colour | case |
| 12 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tenderness | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fading | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fading | det |
| 15 | fading | fading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tenderness | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 details | case |
| 17 | landscape | landscape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 details | compound |
| 18 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fading | nmod |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 haze | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 haze | det |
| 21 | haze | haze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | obl |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 27 smokes | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 smokes | det |
| 24 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fire | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 camp | punct |
| 26 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 smokes | compound |
| 27 | smokes | smoke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 haze | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 legendary | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 legendary | det |
| 30 | legendary | legendary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 smokes | nmod |
| 31 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 34 paiarehe | punct |
| 32 | Patu | Patu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 paiarehe | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 Patu | punct |
| 34 | paiarehe | paiarehe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | obl |
| 35 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 34 paiarehe | punct |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 weave | punct |
| 37 | weave | weave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 goes | parataxis |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 veil | det |
| 39 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 weave | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 faery | case |
| 41 | faery | faery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 veil | nmod |
| 42 | over | over | ADP | _ | 44 valley | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 valley | det |
| 44 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 weave | obl |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 sea | cc |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 sea | det |
| 47 | darkening | darken | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 48 sea | amod |
| 48 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 valley | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | the sun | the delicacy | a haze like the fire smokes of the legendary | Patu paiarehe obl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into haze=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | weave | infinitive | a veil of faery | the valley and the darkening sea | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=Product | ||||
| 3 | darken | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | fade | landscape details | nom fading «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | smoke | the legendary | nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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