Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 59

It looks what it is, the mountain guardian of Rapaki; its presence, grimly grand on dark lowering days when the mists trail about it and give it added height and dourness, is no less overpowering in the night, when it leans over the deep-cut valley of dreams, a huge rugged blade of blackness etched against the sky.

Who acts: apex, mists · What happens: look, be, trail, give, add, overpower · To what, where: presence, height, cut valley, huge rugged blade, sky

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 (apex, mists), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looks	nsubj
2	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 looks	conj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 what	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 guardian	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 guardian	det
8	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 guardian	compound
9	guardian	guardian	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Rapaki	case
11	Rapaki	Rapaki	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 guardian	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 presence	punct
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 presence	nmod:poss
14	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looks	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 grand	punct
16	grimly	grimly	ADV	_	17 grand	advmod
17	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 presence	amod
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 days	case
19	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 days	amod
20	lowering	lowering	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 days	compound
21	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 grand	obl
22	when	when	SCONJ	_	25 trail	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 mists	det
24	mists	mist	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 trail	nsubj
25	trail	trail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 grand	advcl
26	about	about	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 trail	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 give	cc
29	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 trail	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 added	nsubj
31	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 give	ccomp
32	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 added	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 dourness	cc
34	dourness	dourness	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 height	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 overpowering	punct
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 overpowering	aux
37	no	no	ADV	_	38 less	advmod
38	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	39 overpowering	advmod
39	overpowering	overpower	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 looks	conj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 night	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 night	det
42	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 overpowering	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 leans	punct
44	when	when	SCONJ	_	46 leans	mark
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 leans	nsubj
46	leans	lean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 overpowering	conj
47	over	over	ADP	_	52 valley	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 valley	det
49	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 cut	compound
50	-	-	PUNCT	_	49 deep	punct
51	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 valley	amod
52	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 leans	obl
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 dreams	case
54	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 valley	nmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 blade	punct
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 blade	det
57	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 blade	amod
58	rugged	rugged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 blade	amod
59	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 valley	conj
60	of	of	ADP	_	61 blackness	case
61	blackness	blackness	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 blade	nmod
62	etched	etch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	59 blade	acl
63	against	against	ADP	_	65 sky	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 sky	det
65	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 etched	obl
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	apex	apex's presence				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a	present	apex				the mountain guardian of Rapaki appos	tree rules
3	trail	present	the mists				about apex	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent about it=Trajectory
4	give	infinitive	the mists not said here					tree rules
5	add speech: assert	past	apex	height and dourness				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent height=Patient
6	overpower	present · progressive	apex not said here			night	less property	tree rules
7	lean	present	apex		the cut valley of dreams and a huge rugged blade of blackness			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over valley=Location
8	cut	participle						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
9	etch	participle		a huge rugged blade of blackness not said here	the sky			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent against sky=Destination

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 59