Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 109
Down in a nearer dwelling, a girl is rehearsing a _poi_-dance song, and the lilt is familiar, the half-sad chant that begins,
Who acts: girl, lilt, sad chant · What happens: rehearse, be, begin · To what, where: _ poi
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 (girl, lilt, sad chant), 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 | Down | down | ADV | _ | 10 rehearsing | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 dwelling | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dwelling | det |
| 4 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 dwelling | amod |
| 5 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Down | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Down | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rehearsing | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 rehearsing | aux |
| 10 | rehearsing | rehearse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 poi | det |
| 12 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 poi | compound |
| 13 | poi | poi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rehearsing | obj |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 song | punct |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 dance | punct |
| 16 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 song | compound |
| 17 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rehearsing | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 familiar | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 familiar | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lilt | det |
| 21 | lilt | lilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 familiar | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 familiar | cop |
| 23 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 song | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 chant | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 chant | det |
| 26 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 28 sad | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 half | punct |
| 28 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 chant | amod |
| 29 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 song | appos |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 begins | nsubj |
| 31 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 chant | acl:relcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rehearsing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rehearse | present · progressive | a girl | a _ poi | dance song obj; down property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | the lilt | familiar property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | begin | present | the sad chant | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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