Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 41
A legend embalming a distinct perception of the geological history of these hills.
Who acts: legend · What happens: embalm, perceive · To what, where: distinct perception, legend, geological history
This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legend), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 legend | det |
| 2 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | embalming | embalm | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 legend | acl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 perception | det |
| 5 | distinct | distinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 perception | amod |
| 6 | perception | perception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 embalming | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 history | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 history | det |
| 9 | geological | geological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 history | amod |
| 10 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 perception | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 hills | case |
| 12 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 hills | det |
| 13 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 history | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 legend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embalm | gerund | a legend not said here | a distinct perception of the geological history of this hills | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | perceive | the geological history of this hills | nom perception «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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