Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 29

When the mists steal down on the rhyolite knobs of the fire-fused Port Hills and the Peninsula, craggy beyond description, peaked in a hundred fantastic shapes, with great black and grey nipples of lava protruding from the grassy slopes and the woody ridges, the land has an eerie look, fit playground for the Forgetful People, as the old Irish would have called them.

Who acts: mists, great black nipples, land · What happens: steal down, fuse, peak, protrude, have, call · To what, where: rhyolite knobs, hundred fantastic shapes, grassy slopes, eerie look, Irish · 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 (mists, great black nipples, land), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 steal	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mists	det
3	mists	mist	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 steal	nsubj
4	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 steal	compound:prt
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 knobs	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 knobs	det
8	rhyolite	rhyolite	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knobs	compound
9	knobs	knob	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 steal	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	16 Hills	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Hills	det
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fused	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 fire	punct
14	fused	fuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 Port	amod
15	Port	Port	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Hills	compound
16	Hills	Hill	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 knobs	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Peninsula	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Peninsula	det
19	Peninsula	Peninsula	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Hills	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 craggy	punct
21	craggy	craggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Hills	conj
22	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	23 description	case
23	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 craggy	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 peaked	punct
25	peaked	peak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 craggy	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	30 shapes	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 hundred	det
28	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 shapes	nummod
29	fantastic	fantastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 shapes	amod
30	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 peaked	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 nipples	punct
32	with	with	ADP	_	37 nipples	case
33	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 nipples	amod
34	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 nipples	amod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 grey	cc
36	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 black	conj
37	nipples	nipple	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 shapes	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 lava	case
39	lava	lava	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 nipples	nmod
40	protruding	protrude	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 nipples	acl
41	from	from	ADP	_	44 slopes	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 slopes	det
43	grassy	grassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 slopes	amod
44	slopes	slope	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 protruding	obl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 ridges	cc
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 ridges	det
47	woody	woody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 ridges	amod
48	ridges	ridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 slopes	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 has	punct
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 land	det
51	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 has	nsubj
52	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Hills	parataxis
53	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 look	det
54	eerie	eerie	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 look	amod
55	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 has	obj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 playground	punct
57	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 playground	amod
58	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 look	appos
59	for	for	ADP	_	62 People	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 People	det
61	Forgetful	Forgetful	PROPN	Number=Sing	62 People	compound
62	People	People	PROPN	Number=Plur	58 playground	nmod
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 called	punct
64	as	as	SCONJ	_	70 called	mark
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 called	det
66	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 called	amod
67	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 called	nsubj:pass
68	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	70 called	aux
69	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	70 called	aux
70	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 has	conj
71	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	70 called	obj
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 steal	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	steal down	present	the mists		the rhyolite knobs of the Port Hills and the Peninsula		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on knob=Location
2	fuse	participle				fire compound	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	peak	participle	the mists not said here		hundred fantastic shapes with great black nipples of lava		tree rules
4	protrude	gerund	great black nipples of lava not said here		the grassy slopes and the woody ridges		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	present	the land	a eerie look			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient
6	call	would · perfect · passive		Irish		people obj	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme they=Result

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 29

The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 29