Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 66
But the old ribbonwood, or lacebark, or thousand-jacket, as the bushman variously calls it, is the tree that takes the eye.
Who acts: bushman, old ribbonwood, tree · What happens: call, be, take · To what, where: ribbonwood, tree, eye · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (bushman, old ribbonwood, tree), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 tree | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ribbonwood | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ribbonwood | amod |
| 4 | ribbonwood | ribbonwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tree | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lacebark | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 lacebark | cc |
| 7 | lacebark | lacebark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ribbonwood | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 jacket | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 jacket | cc |
| 10 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 jacket | nummod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 thousand | punct |
| 12 | jacket | jacket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ribbonwood | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 calls | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 calls | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bushman | det |
| 16 | bushman | bushman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 calls | nsubj |
| 17 | variously | variously | ADV | _ | 18 calls | advmod |
| 18 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ribbonwood | parataxis |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 calls | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ribbonwood | punct |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 tree | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tree | det |
| 23 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 takes | nsubj |
| 25 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 tree | acl:relcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 eye | det |
| 27 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 takes | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 tree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | the bushman | ribbonwood | variously property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the old ribbonwood or lacebark or thousand jacket | the tree | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | present | the tree | the eye | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
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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