Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 9
And if you turn your face southward and look far across the upper part of the harbour, near the western slopes of Mount Herbert, you will plainly see what seems a continuation of the remarkable wall of lava which welled ages ago white-hot from the cauldrons of Ruaimoko.
Who acts: you, lava · What happens: turn, look, see, seem, well, continue · To what, where: face, continuation, ages, remarkable wall · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, lava), 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 | _ | 9 look | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 turn | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 turn | nsubj |
| 4 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 look | advcl |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 face | nmod:poss |
| 6 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turn | obj |
| 7 | southward | southward | ADV | _ | 4 turn | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 look | cc |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 look | advmod |
| 11 | across | across | ADP | _ | 14 part | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 part | det |
| 13 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 part | amod |
| 14 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 look | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 harbour | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 harbour | det |
| 17 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 part | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 slopes | punct |
| 19 | near | near | ADP | _ | 22 slopes | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 slopes | det |
| 21 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 slopes | amod |
| 22 | slopes | slope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 look | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Mount | case |
| 24 | Mount | Mount | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 slopes | nmod |
| 25 | Herbert | Herbert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Mount | flat |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 see | punct |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 see | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 see | aux |
| 29 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 30 see | advmod |
| 30 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 look | conj |
| 31 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 32 seems | nsubj |
| 32 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 see | ccomp |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 continuation | det |
| 34 | continuation | continuation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 seems | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 wall | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 wall | det |
| 37 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 wall | amod |
| 38 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 continuation | nmod |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 lava | case |
| 40 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 wall | nmod |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 welled | nsubj |
| 42 | welled | well | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 lava | acl:relcl |
| 43 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 welled | obj |
| 44 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 47 hot | advmod |
| 45 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 hot | amod |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 white | punct |
| 47 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 ages | acl:relcl |
| 48 | from | from | ADP | _ | 50 cauldrons | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 cauldrons | det |
| 50 | cauldrons | cauldron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 hot | obl |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 Ruaimoko | case |
| 52 | Ruaimoko | Ruaimoko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 cauldrons | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn a condition, not said to happen | present | you | your face | southward property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | imperative | you not said here | across the upper part of the harbour; the western slopes of Mount conj; far property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent across part=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | future | you | plainly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | seem | present | a continuation of the remarkable wall of lava | what nsubj | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme continuation=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | well | past | lava | ages | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | continue | the remarkable wall of lava | nom continuation «act 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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