Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 3
There was just the faintest of hazy films drawing over the nearer hills from the waters.
Who acts: hazy films · What happens: be, draw · To what, where: nearer hills
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 (hazy films), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 faintest | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 faintest | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 faintest | det |
| 5 | faintest | faint | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 films | case |
| 7 | hazy | hazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 films | amod |
| 8 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 faintest | obl |
| 9 | drawing | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 films | acl |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 hills | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hills | det |
| 12 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 hills | amod |
| 13 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 drawing | obl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 waters | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 waters | det |
| 16 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hills | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 faintest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | of hazy films; faint property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | draw | gerund | hazy films not said here | the nearer hills from the waters | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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