Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 2
They were the hills of an artist’s dream this golden afternoon, all their asperities of crag and bare bluff softened and gilded by the mellow light of a calm, bright, windless day.
Who acts: Hills, artist · What happens: be, soften, gild, dream, light · To what, where: hills, bare bluff, calm bright windless day
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 (Hills, artist), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hills | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hills | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hills | det |
| 4 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 dream | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 artist | det |
| 7 | artist | artist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dream | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 artist | case |
| 9 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hills | nmod |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 afternoon | det |
| 11 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 afternoon | amod |
| 12 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hills | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 asperities | punct |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 asperities | det:predet |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 asperities | nmod:poss |
| 16 | asperities | asperity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hills | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 crag | case |
| 18 | crag | crag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asperities | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bluff | cc |
| 20 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bluff | amod |
| 21 | bluff | bluff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 crag | conj |
| 22 | softened | soften | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 bluff | acl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 gilded | cc |
| 24 | gilded | gild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 softened | conj |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 light | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 light | det |
| 27 | mellow | mellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 light | amod |
| 28 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gilded | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 day | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 day | det |
| 31 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 day | amod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 calm | punct |
| 33 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 day | amod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 bright | punct |
| 35 | windless | windless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 day | amod |
| 36 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 light | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hills | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Hills = hill | the hills and Hills's asperities of crag and bare bluff | afternoon | of a artist's dream; Hills's asperities of crag and bare bluff conj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | soften | participle | bare bluff not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | gild | participle | by the mellow light of a calm bright windless day | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | dream | a artist | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | light | a calm bright windless day | nom light «phenomenon 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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