Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 57
The dominating tors and marline-spikes of fire-born rock and the great up-swell of land on all sides but the sea ward off the cold winds.
Who acts: born rock · What happens: dominate, bear, spike · To what, where: dominating tors
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 (born rock), 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 tors | det |
| 2 | dominating | dominate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 tors | amod |
| 3 | tors | tor | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 spikes | cc |
| 5 | marline | marline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spikes | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 marline | punct |
| 7 | spikes | spike | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tors | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 rock | case |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 born | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 fire | punct |
| 11 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 rock | amod |
| 12 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spikes | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 swell | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 swell | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 swell | amod |
| 16 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 swell | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 up | punct |
| 18 | swell | swell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rock | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 land | case |
| 20 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 swell | nmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 sides | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 sides | det |
| 23 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 swell | nmod |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 ward | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 ward | det |
| 26 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ward | compound |
| 27 | ward | ward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rock | conj |
| 28 | off | off | ADP | _ | 31 winds | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 winds | det |
| 30 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 winds | amod |
| 31 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 ward | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tors | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dominate | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | bear | participle | fire compound | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | spike | born rock and the great up swell of land on all sides but the sea ward off the cold winds | nom spike «event 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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