Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 24
One is that lofty palisade of a peak which you call Brazenose, and the level-topped hill above French Farm.
Who acts: One, you · What happens: be, call, top · To what, where: lofty palisade, peak · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (One, you), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 palisade | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 palisade | cop |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 palisade | mark |
| 4 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 palisade | amod |
| 5 | palisade | palisade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 peak | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 peak | det |
| 8 | peak | peak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 palisade | nmod |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 call | obj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 call | nsubj |
| 11 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 peak | acl:relcl |
| 12 | Brazenose | Brazenose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 call | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hill | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hill | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hill | det |
| 16 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 topped | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 level | punct |
| 18 | topped | top | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 hill | amod |
| 19 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 palisade | conj |
| 20 | above | above | ADP | _ | 22 Farm | case |
| 21 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Farm | amod |
| 22 | Farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hill | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 palisade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | One | lofty palisade and the topped hill above French Farm | of a peak; the topped hill above French Farm conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call | present | you | a peak | Brazenose xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient | |||
| 3 | top | participle | level compound | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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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