Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 1

Our talk turned one day to the poetic legendary past of the Port Hills above us and the Banks Peninsula peaks yonder, hemming in Lyttelton Harbour in an annular line of dead fire crags.

Who acts: talk, Banks Peninsula, Our · What happens: turn, peak, hem, talk · To what, where: poetic legendary

This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Little People of the Mist.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (talk, Banks Peninsula, Our), 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	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 talk	nmod:poss
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 day	nummod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl:unmarked
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 legendary	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 legendary	det
8	poetic	poetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 legendary	amod
9	legendary	legendary	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl
10	past	past	ADP	_	14 Hills	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 Hills	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Hills	det
13	Port	Port	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Hills	compound
14	Hills	Hill	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 turned	obl
15	above	above	ADP	_	16 us	case
16	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 turned	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 peaks	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Peninsula	det
19	Banks	Banks	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Peninsula	compound
20	Peninsula	Peninsula	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 peaks	nsubj
21	peaks	peak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
22	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	21 peaks	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hemming	punct
24	hemming	hem	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 peaks	advcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 Lyttelton	case
26	Lyttelton	Lyttelton	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 hemming	obl
27	Harbour	Harbour	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Lyttelton	flat
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 line	case
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 line	det
30	annular	annular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 line	amod
31	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hemming	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 crags	case
33	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 crags	amod
34	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 crags	compound
35	crags	crag	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 line	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Our talk	the poetic legendary	day	past the Port Hills; above us	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to legendary=Source past hill=Trajectory above we=Destination
2	peak	present	the Banks Peninsula			yonder property	tree rules
3	hem	gerund	the Banks Peninsula not said here			in a annular line of dead fire crags; in Lyttelton	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in lyttelton=Theme
4	talk		Our				nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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🌲 Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 1

The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 1