Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 108
The little boys and girls of the settlement are still at play around the meeting-hall, and every call and every laugh come clearly through the velvet soft air.
Who acts: little boys, call · What happens: be, come · To what, where: play, velvet
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 (little boys, call), 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 | 3 boys | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boys | amod |
| 3 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 play | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 girls | cc |
| 5 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 boys | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 settlement | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 settlement | det |
| 8 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 girls | nmod |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 play | cop |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 play | advmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 play | case |
| 12 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | around | around | ADP | _ | 17 hall | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hall | det |
| 15 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hall | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 meeting | punct |
| 17 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 play | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 come | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 come | cc |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 call | det |
| 21 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 come | nsubj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 laugh | cc |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 laugh | det |
| 24 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 call | conj |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 play | conj |
| 26 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 25 come | advmod |
| 27 | through | through | ADP | _ | 29 velvet | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 velvet | det |
| 29 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 come | obl |
| 30 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 air | amod |
| 31 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 velvet | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 play | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the little boys and girls of the settlement | play | still | around the meeting hall | tree rules | ||
| 2 | come | present | every call and every laugh | the velvet and soft air | clearly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through velvet=Initial_Location |
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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