Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 28

Indeed, on dim and foggy days, and when the wet vapours becloud the long-dead volcano land, it is not difficult to enter into the spirit of the Maori fancy, and in imagination people all these craggy pinnacles with the _Patu-paiarehe_, and the wooded gulches with _Maeroero_, the wild men of the bush.

Who acts: wet vapours · What happens: becloud, not be, enter, wood · To what, where: long dead volcano land, spirit

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 (wet vapours), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	7 days	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	7 days	case
4	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 days	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 foggy	cc
6	foggy	foggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dim	conj
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 difficult	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 difficult	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 becloud	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 vapours	det
12	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 vapours	amod
13	vapours	vapour	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 becloud	nsubj
14	becloud	becloud	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 difficult	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 land	det
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 land	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 long	punct
18	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 land	amod
19	volcano	volcano	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 land	compound
20	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 becloud	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 becloud	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 difficult	expl
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 difficult	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 difficult	advmod
25	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 days	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 enter	mark
27	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 difficult	xcomp
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 spirit	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 spirit	det
30	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 enter	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 fancy	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 fancy	det
33	Maori	Maori	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 fancy	compound
34	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 spirit	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 people	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 people	cc
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 people	case
38	imagination	imagination	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 people	compound
39	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 days	conj
40	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 pinnacles	det:predet
41	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	43 pinnacles	det
42	craggy	craggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 pinnacles	amod
43	pinnacles	pinnacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 people	nmod
44	with	with	ADP	_	49 paiarehe	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 paiarehe	det
46	_	_	PUNCT	_	49 paiarehe	punct
47	Patu	Patu	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 paiarehe	compound
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 Patu	punct
49	paiarehe	paiarehe	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 pinnacles	nmod
50	_	_	PUNCT	_	49 paiarehe	punct
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 gulches	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 gulches	cc
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 gulches	det
54	wooded	wood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 gulches	amod
55	gulches	gulch	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 pinnacles	appos
56	with	with	ADP	_	58 Maeroero	case
57	_	_	PUNCT	_	56 with	punct
58	Maeroero	Maeroero	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 gulches	nmod
59	_	_	PUNCT	_	55 gulches	punct
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 men	punct
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 men	det
62	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 men	amod
63	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 pinnacles	conj
64	of	of	ADP	_	66 bush	case
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 bush	det
66	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 men	nmod
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 days	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	becloud	present	the wet vapours	the long dead volcano land			tree rules
2	not is	present				difficult property	tree rules
3	enter	to-infinitive			the spirit of the Maori fancy		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into spirit=Initial_Location
4	wood	participle					tree rules

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 28

The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 28