Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 60
And even in this day of sunshine, when every cave and cranny in the Poho-o-Tamatea were searched by the golden light and when the mystery of its fiery birth stood revealed, the great spear-rock still seemed a place of eeriness and _tapu_.
Who acts: golden light · What happens: search, reveal, seem · To what, where: cave, great spear rock
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 (golden light), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 seemed | cc |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 day | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 seemed | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sunshine | case |
| 7 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 day | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 searched | punct |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 22 searched | mark |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 cave | det |
| 11 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 searched | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cranny | cc |
| 13 | cranny | cranny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cave | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Tamatea | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Tamatea | det |
| 16 | Poho | Poho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Tamatea | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Tamatea | punct |
| 18 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 20 Tamatea | case |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 o | punct |
| 20 | Tamatea | Tamatea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 cranny | nmod |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 searched | aux:pass |
| 22 | searched | search | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 day | parataxis |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 light | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 light | det |
| 25 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 light | amod |
| 26 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 searched | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 revealed | cc |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 stood | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 mystery | det |
| 30 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 stood | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 birth | case |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 birth | nmod:poss |
| 33 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 birth | amod |
| 34 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 mystery | nmod |
| 35 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 revealed | aux:pass |
| 36 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 searched | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 rock | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 rock | det |
| 39 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 rock | amod |
| 40 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 rock | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 spear | punct |
| 42 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 seemed | obl |
| 43 | still | still | ADV | _ | 44 seemed | advmod |
| 44 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 place | det |
| 46 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 seemed | obj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 eeriness | case |
| 48 | eeriness | eeriness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 place | nmod |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 tapu | cc |
| 50 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 51 tapu | punct |
| 51 | tapu | tapu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 eeriness | conj |
| 52 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 44 seemed | punct |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 44 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | past · passive | the golden light | every cave and cranny in the Poho Tamatea | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Location | ||||
| 2 | reveal | past · passive | the golden light not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | seem | past | the great spear rock | still; day | a place of eeriness and tapu obj | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme place=Attribute |
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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